OpenAI is promoting its first {hardware} — with none assist from Jony Ive. It describes the Codex Micro as a “command heart for agentic work” however it’s actually a 13-switch wi-fi keyboard custom-made to assist builders hold tabs on what their Codex brokers are doing. It prices $230.
The keyboard has 13 mechanical switches (one keycap covers two of them by default), a rotary encoder, joystick, and RGB backlighting round the entire keypad and particular person keys. It comes with 32 customizable icon keycaps.
OpenAI claims that the Codex Micro is a severe enterprise device: The command keys allow Codex customers settle for adjustments, reject outputs, push-to-talk, begin new chats, and set off customized actions. The rotary encoder can be utilized to dial up the “brainpower” allotted to duties — or in additional standard phrases, what number of tokens to allocate to reasoning on a process. And the RGB lighting can present suggestions on how numerous duties are progressing. And the RGB lighting beneath the “agent” keys can present suggestions on how numerous duties are progressing.
