Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app. OpenAI is officially entering the hardware market with the launch of a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant, Codex. The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is being advertised as a fancy new way for ChatGPT users to manage their fleets of AI coding agents - the semi-autonomous bots that can write and execute code with little human input.
Key Takeaways
- The device comes equipped with light-up "Agent Keys" that show agent status, customizable Command Keys that act as shortcuts for frequent Codex actions, and a joystick for launching common workflows.
It also has a dial that adjusts how much "reasoning" - essentially, how much time and computing power - an agent uses on a given task (agent reasoning level).
- OpenAI told TechCrunch in an email that the Micro is a limited-run collaboration, signaling that it's more of a novelty item than a product designed for mass appeal.
It seems like a flashy bauble designed to herald the company's entrance into the hardware market.
- At this juncture, it's difficult to imagine how all of those disparate details - screenless, portable, moving parts - will come together into a coherent product (OpenAI isn't saying).
- That connection hasn't gone unnoticed, least of all by Apple.
Apple last week sued OpenAI , accusing the company's senior leadership of a deliberate strategy to extract its confidential information; it alleges OpenAI used that information in developing its own hardware device.
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The device comes equipped with light-up "Agent Keys" that show agent status, customizable Command Keys that act as shortcuts for frequent Codex actions, and a joystick for launching common workflows. It also has a dial that adjusts how much "reasoning" - essentially, how much time and computing power - an agent uses on a given task (agent reasoning level). The idea is that, instead of managing your agents through your phone or desktop app, you can now use the Micro as your "command center for agentic work," as OpenAI puts it.
It'll also probably just look really cool sitting on your desk. The device is controllable and customizable via the ChatGPT desktop app. OpenAI told TechCrunch in an email that the Micro is a limited-run collaboration, signaling that it's more of a novelty item than a product designed for mass appeal.
It seems like a flashy bauble designed to herald the company's entrance into the hardware market. The more consequential hardware news arrived Tuesday. A yet-to-be-released OpenAI device that Bloomberg revealed sounds like it is being designed for the long haul.
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