Sora Slashed, Super Apps to Merge, OpenAI Codex Lead: Won't Stop, Stepping Up Investment Significantly

According to 1M AI News monitoring, OpenAI Codex Engineering Lead Thibault Sottiaux stated on X that, "I want to make it clear that the Codex App is not going away. We are ramping up investment significantly, and it's about to get really good." He also revealed three days ago that the team is undergoing a "full end-to-end re-architecture of Codex to accommodate future model advancements."

This statement comes amid OpenAI's intensive product lineup adjustments in the past week. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and the browser into a desktop "super app," led by App Division CEO Fidji Simo. Subsequently, OpenAI announced the shutdown of Sora, a video generation app launched just months ago. The trend of product line consolidation has raised concerns about the future of other standalone applications.