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OpenAI Bought a Whole Company So Codex Could Code 25 Hours After You Close Your Laptop

OpenAI's Codex model completed a single 25-hour coding run, consuming approximately 13 million tokens, after the company acquired the startup behind the technology to enhance its AI coding capabilities.

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OpenAI documented a single Codex run that went for about 25 hours uninterrupted, burned roughly 13 million tokens, and produced around… Continue reading on Towards AI »

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