OpenAI Teases Faster ChatGPT, Codex Apps

Performance is becoming a defining battleground for AI developer tools, especially as Codex takes on longer-running, multi-agent workloads.

• –Faster UI interactions would directly improve day-to-day coding workflows
• –Community reports cite lag when switching threads, opening panels, and typing
• –Codex’s expanding agent workloads make app responsiveness more important than cosmetic polish
• –OpenAI has previously promised faster inference, but this appears focused on the app experience itself
• –No benchmarks or release timeline means the size of the improvement remains unverified