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Est. 2022·San Francisco, CA
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OpenAI Codex
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Coverage (30d)
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This Week
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Evidence
3 articles
Team Size
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Timeline

OpenAI Codex2026-07-18

Codex computer-use feature demonstrated autonomously installing Blender and generating 3D animation

Cursor2026-07-16

Cursor doubled included model usage on all plans and added Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5 without price changes.

Cursor2026-06-21

Trained a GPT-size model from scratch, shifting from fine-tuning to pretraining for code generation.

Cursor2026-06-21

Announced new Composer model powered by a GPT-size model trained from scratch with 10-20x more compute.

Cursor2026-06-17

Was on track to close a $2B funding round from a16z, Thrive, and Nvidia before acquisition.

OpenAI Codex2026-06-15

OpenAI Codex reached 5 million weekly users

Cursor2026-05-18

Cursor shipped Composer 2.5, a major upgrade to its in-house AI coding model

Cursor2026-05-11

Cursor launched offering multi-line edits and faster suggestions, rapidly displacing Copilot

OpenAI Codex2026-04-08

Weekly active users grew from 2M to 3M in under a month, a 50% increase

OpenAI Codex2025-12-26

OpenAI Codex agent launched as an autonomous coding tool

Ecosystem

Cursor

competes withClaude Code8 src
usesModel Context Protocol4 src
usesOpenAI3 src
competes withAnthropic2 src
competes withGitHub Copilot2 src
usesGrok 4.51 src

OpenAI Codex

usesGitHub Copilot3 src
usesBlender1 src
competes withDevin1 src
usesSWE-Bench Verified1 src

Benchmarks

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OpenAI Codex80.8

Evidence (3 articles)

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