OpenAI launched Codex Micro, a small light-up device designed for use with its Codex coding platform. The hardware is meant to help users monitor multiple agentic coding threads at a glance rather than act as a general-purpose AI companion.
The release is notable because it gives OpenAI a first hardware product, but in a narrow developer workflow rather than the consumer assistant category. It also shows how coding agents are creating new interface needs as users supervise parallel automated work.