Key facts
- Knowledge workers constitute approximately one-fifth of OpenAI's Codex users.
- The growth rate of knowledge workers using Codex is more than three times that of developers.
- Codex has exceeded 4 million weekly active users, a fivefold increase since February.
- Data analysis tasks for knowledge workers grew 110% week-over-week.
- Over 60% of Codex users now run multiple tasks concurrently.
This story highlights how employees within AI companies are using the very tools they develop to enhance their own work. Nicole Diaz's experience demonstrates the practical application of AI in a corporate legal setting, moving beyond theoretical possibilities to tangible efficiency gains. It also touches upon the broader debate in legal tech regarding the adoption of frontier AI models versus specialized software.
Knowledge workers now make up roughly one-fifth of OpenAI's Codex users and are growing more than three times as fast as developers, according to a new OpenAI report. AI has made it easier to crank out documents, emails, decks and dashboards, and OpenAI is now betting agents can help workers make sense of them. Previous waves of workplace software encouraged workers to produce huge volumes of files and messages, but those "workplace artifacts" largely remain siloed inside different software programs. The report argues that Codex can round up the important context from all of those artifacts no matter where they are.