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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.

read1 min views38 publishedJun 17, 2026

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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pub.towardsai.net — original article Making LLMS Simpler: From SFT to GRPO LLM-as-a-judge with MLflow 3.0 LLM Evaluation 104: Why Your AI Application Needs Multiple Eval Pipelines
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