Claude Code, Codex and Muse Code: how the three coding agents differ
Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta are competing to build coding agents that plan, edit, test and retry on their own. Here is how their three approaches compare.
Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta are competing to build coding agents that plan, edit, test and retry on their own. Here is how their three approaches compare.
OpenAI says its GPT-5.6 family delivers better results at lower cost, adds an Ultra mode that runs four agents in parallel, and ships with its strongest safety stack yet.
OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Cowork both act autonomously on files and tasks, but one is built for developers and the other for general knowledge work.
A run of updates has turned OpenAI's Codex from a developer tool into a general desktop agent that connects to email, Slack, calendars and more than 90 app plugins.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 on April 23 for ChatGPT and Codex paid tiers, seven weeks after GPT-5.4, with claims of stronger agentic coding and research performance.
OpenAI has shipped an official plugin that lets developers call its Codex coding agent from inside Claude Code, days after launching a Codex plugin marketplace with more than 20 integrations.
OpenAI said on March 24 that it will wind down the standalone Sora app and its video generation API, and will not bring video generation into ChatGPT, six months after Sora's viral launch.
OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 mini and nano models promise roughly twice the speed of their predecessors for coding and agent tasks, and are available in ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
Claude Octopus is an MIT-licensed project that lets Claude Code orchestrate OpenAI Codex and Google Gemini in parallel, with the models checking each other's work before a final answer.
OpenAI has released a Windows version of its Codex coding agent on the Microsoft Store, weeks after the Mac app passed a million downloads in its first week.
OpenAI is developing its own code repository platform that would compete with GitHub, The Information reported, as tensions with Microsoft persist and Codex passes a million developers.
OpenAI's new Codex app gives developers a single place to run and supervise several AI coding agents in parallel, with worktrees, scheduled automations and built-in code review.