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Sam Altman's OpenAI Pivots ChatGPT Into a 'Superapp' — Merging Codex and Agents Ahead of a Planned IPO
Per a June 7 Financial Times report (sourced to a dozen current and former employees), OpenAI will consolidate ChatGPT, Codex, agents, and partner services like Canva and Booking.com into a single unified 'superapp' in the coming weeks, betting the future belongs to autonomous multi-step agents rather than Q&A. Codex — ~4M weekly users and over $1B annualized revenue — becomes the developer/enterprise layer, and the consolidation simplifies OpenAI's product story for public-market investors after its confidential S-1 filing and Q4 2026 listing target. For builders, it signals OpenAI folding its coding agent into the consumer flagship rather than keeping Codex a standalone surface.
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