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OpenAI Releases $230 Codex Micro Keyboard for AI Coding Assistant
OpenAI launched a limited-run light-up keyboard co-designed with Work Louder. The device pairs with its Codex AI coding tool and includes agent status keys, shortcuts, a joystick, and a reasoning dial. The release comes amid an ongoing lawsuit with Apple over hardware development allegations.
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OpenAI released the Codex Micro, a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant Codex. TechCrunch reported that the device was co-designed with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder as a limited-run collaboration. The Codex Micro features light-up Agent Keys that show agent status, customizable Command Keys that act as shortcuts for frequent Codex actions, a joystick for launching common workflows, and a dial that adjusts the amount of reasoning an agent uses on a given task.
The device is controllable and customizable via the ChatGPT desktop app. TechCrunch reported that OpenAI described the keyboard in an email as a limited-run item rather than a mass-market product. The company is also developing a separate portable, screenless smart speaker that integrates with ChatGPT and includes mechanical elements that can move on their own.
That unreleased device remains in development and subject to change, according to Bloomberg reporting cited by TechCrunch. It is being designed by former Apple engineers. Apple sued OpenAI last week, accusing the company’s senior leadership of a deliberate strategy to extract its confidential information for use in developing its own hardware device.
OpenAI has denied wrongdoing.
