OpenAI's first hardware ships: a $230 Codex keypad for agent fleets
OpenAI's first gadget: a 12-key macropad for parallel Codex agents, with status LEDs, a reasoning dial and approve/reject keys, plus a tiny local reasoner too.
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A cockpit for your Codex agents
The Codex Micro is a 12-key macropad: six agent keys whose LEDs read white (idle), blue (thinking), green (done) or red (error), a dial for reasoning level, a joystick for the composer, push-to-talk, and keys to accept, reject or branch a run. It's $230 and on sale now from OpenAI and Work Louder in limited quantities.
OpenAI's first gadget bets you run fleets
This is OpenAI's first shipped hardware, separate from the Jony Ive device still in the works, and it assumes you now juggle many parallel agents and want glanceable status plus one-tap approve or reject. Work Louder's Input app makes it programmable across five layers, so it drives more than Codex, though reviewers split between 'fun for power users' and 'serious coders won't touch it.'
A 3B reasoner punching at 600B
Weibo's open-weight VibeThinker-3B has climbed Hugging Face's trending list: on a 3B base it hits 96.1% on unseen LeetCode contests and 76.4% on IMO-level math, rivaling models hundreds of times larger. It's MIT-licensed and small enough to run on a laptop, a cheap local pick for verifiable math and coding tasks.