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▶ 7:32 · $OPENAI · OpenAI pushes Codex as open, model-flexible alternative to Claude Code
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The Information

Why Claude Code's Dominance Is Fading

2026-08-05 · 6 company · 8 thematic
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laura bratton

Writes the Applied AI newsletter for The Information, reporting on enterprise AI adoption, coding agents, and frontier model competition.

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“They've really tried to market Codex. First of all, Codex is an open source harness um and they've positioned Codex you know, obviously it's optimized for OpenAI's models, but you can use different models with CodeX and they're sort of try…”
—laura bratton
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