OpenAI's Codex is the best AI system on the planet. 🪐

Yet, most non-technical users have never touched it.

Don't let the word 'code' in Codex scare you. Codex is OpenAI's forthcoming superapp, and if you haven't used it yet, you're literally asking for your competition to lap you.

On today's 'AI at Work on Wednesdays' we're going over the basics: What Codex is, how to use it, and why it's actually better than ChatGPT and Claude.

Tune in LIVE to find out.

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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. OpenAI Codex vs Claude & ChatGPT
2. Codex Desktop App Key Features
3. Why Codex Is Better for Enterprises
4. Codex vs Claude Memory Functionality
5. Codex Model Performance Benchmarks
6. Codex Uptime and Service Reliability
7. Codex Workspace: Unified Workbench Advantage
8. Projects, Permissions, and Folder Setup in Codex
9. Hands-On Codex Desktop Setup Guide
10. Codex Plugins, Skills, and Automations Overview

Timestamps:

00:00 Comparing AI code tools

06:25 Live audience and podcast info

07:37 Switching from Claude to Codex

11:35 Autonomous system reliability issues

13:21 The importance of reliable APIs

17:31 Avoiding Claude for business use

21:43 Introducing Adobe's Firefly AI assistant

23:59 Exploring Codex settings and personas

26:21 Setting up codex file access

31:30 Using apps and connectors

33:34 Syncing desktop and web codecs

35:24 Codex as a unified workbench

40:15 Managing workflows in Codex

42:47 Previewing apps with Codex browser

45:08 How codecs enables autonomous work

48:15 Setting up Codex automations

51:17 Automating work with codex

55:24 Benefits of using OpenAI codecs

Keywords:

OpenAI Codex, Codex desktop app, Codex for beginners, AI super app, Codex vs Claude, Claude Code,

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Adobe Firefly AI Assistant, now in public beta. See it today at firefly.adobe.com

Adobe Firefly AI Assistant, now in public beta. See it today at firefly.adobe.com

Until a few months ago, open source AI was kinda a hobby project.

Now, it's tearing corporate boardrooms apart.

Why?

Over the past 6ish months, the gap between frontier closed AI and open sourced AI has shrunk to pretty much nothing. And with the surge of always on agents driving open models, their development and release schedule is on pace with the frontier labs.

So if your team isn't paying attention to -- and running test cases through -- open AI models, there's a good chance you'll either be overpaying or playing catch up soon.

We walk you through the 101 and what you need to know when it comes to open source AI in this Start Here Series special.

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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. Open Source AI vs Closed Models Shift
2. Chinese Model Distillation & Legal Impacts
3. Enterprise AI Cost Triage Strategies
4. Google Gemma 4 Local Model Capabilities
5. Frontier Model Performance Gap Closing
6. 24/7 Agentic AI Systems Overview
7. API Pricing War: DeepSeek vs US Vendors
8. Legal Protection Tradeoffs for Open Source AI
9. AI Workflow Triage: Task-Specific Models
10. Future Trends: Local and Specialized LLMs

Timestamps:

00:00 Introducing the Firefly AI assistant

03:33 Open source AI cost benefits

09:25 AI model performance differences

10:19 Open source model improvements

15:28 Advancements in local AI capabilities

17:04 Impact of Google's Gemma four

22:15 Introducing Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant

24:19 Adobe Firefly AI assistant beta launch

29:26 Choosing the right AI tools

32:00 Shifting workloads to open source

33:31 Using open-source and closed models

36:47 The future of open models

Keywords:

open source AI, open source models, local AI models, local models, closed source AI, closed models, proprietary AI, proprietary models, AI agents, agentic AI, AI workflow triage, cheap API, AI API costs, model distillation, Chinese open source models, China AI models, US AI models,

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Nearly a billion people will be using a new AI model this week, and hardly any of them will notice.

Sheesh.

That’s how important it is to keep up with the latest in greatest in AI.

Aside from OpenAI’s new GPT-5.5 Instant release, this week we saw both AI drama and battles, as well as new capabilities and studies that detail it all.

If you can’t keep up with the daily breakneck speed of AI, make sure you join us weekly for our AI News That Matters where we keep you in the loop in a fraction of the time.

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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. SpaceX Leases Colossus Supercomputer to Anthropic
2. Cloudflare Restructures, Cuts 20% Jobs for AI
3. Apple Settles $250M AI Feature Lawsuit
4. OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 Instant Model Update
5. ChatGPT Personalized Context and Memory Features
6. Microsoft 2026 Work Trend Index on AI Adoption
7. White House Moves Toward Federal AI Model Testing
8. OpenAI, Anthropic Launch AI Consulting Services
9. OpenAI Voice Models, Real-Time Translation Rollout
10. Google DeepMind Staff Unionize Against Military AI
11. Anthropic Expands Claude to Office Suite
12. Adobe Launches AI-Powered PDF Collaboration Tools

Timestamps:

00:00 Elon Musk leases supercomputer to Anthropic

03:19 SpaceX's AI leasing deal

08:10 Cloudflare revenue miss and job cuts

09:43 AI job cuts and stock reactions

13:00 Apple's class action settlement details

18:48 OpenAI releases GPT 5.5 instant

20:22 New memory features and GPT updates

23:36 Microsoft AI adoption study findings

28:40 New AI safety agreements

30:20 OpenAI and Anthropic expansion plans

33:38 AI adoption challenges for companies

36:57 Tech company updates and product launches

40:01 Focusing on trustworthy AI in finance

Keywords:

Anthropic, Anthropic Dev Day, Anthropic open source, Claude, Claude AI, Claude uptime, OpenAI, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Instant, GPT-5.5 Pro, GPT-4.0, ChatGPT, OpenAI new model, OpenAI vs Anthropic, XAI, Elon Musk, SpaceX, Colossus 1 supercomputer, NVIDIA GPUs, AI compute,

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