Thibault Sottiaux

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1. 2d
   Every report recounts Codex's turnaround from cloud setback to ChatGPT desktop base

   Every co-founder and CEO Dan Shipper published “How Codex Happened,” based on months of interviews with six Codex participants including Greg Brockman, Thibault Sottiaux and Alexander Embiricos. Chinese outlets including 机器之心, republished by 36Kr, and 量子位 summarized it. According to those accounts, Codex Cloud was built in about seven weeks and launched on May 16, 2025, but struggled externally because developers had to rebuild their environments in the cloud and the models were not yet capable enough. The team shifted to local work under Sottiaux, rewrote the agent core in Rust, and shipped a terminal CLI, editor sidebars and, on February 2, 2026, a macOS desktop app with no code editor. Every's figures, as cited by the outlets, put Codex above 5 million weekly active users in June; on July 9 the Codex desktop app became the new ChatGPT desktop app; Codex plus ChatGPT for Work are now above 40 million weekly actives. The report also says Sottiaux denied a decision to split out a Codex model line, describing it as an internal research exploration to speed its own work.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 8
2. Oct 12
   OpenAI raises GPT-6.1 Sol default context to 500k, waives long-context fee

   OpenAI engineer Thibault Sottiaux (Tibo) said the default context length for GPT-6.1 Sol in the Codex and Work environments has been raised from 272k to 500k tokens, an increase of about 80%; users can still adjust it manually and the model's maximum is 1M. He described 500k as the sweet spot found in testing, saying it should notably reduce how often context compaction is triggered and better handle long tasks that must retain large amounts of detail. Alongside the change, OpenAI will no longer charge a separate long-context fee when usage is deducted from a subscription, while API calls continue to be billed at API rates.

   IT之家 AI · 🔥 0
3. Oct 11
   Musk touts Grok Bot card-photo shopping; OpenAI's Tibo mocks security risk

   Elon Musk posted on X that users can simply photograph their credit card, send it into the chat box, and Grok Bot will search the web for the best price and place the order. OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT lead Thibault Sottiaux replied with an AI-generated fake credit card, implying the security risk of handing payment credentials to an AI. Users said Amazon had blocked Grok Bot; Musk said Grok would find another route and posted a screenshot of a Lego Star Wars set ordered through Lego's website. According to WIRED, that screenshot exposed the order number, price paid, delivery and billing addresses, the last four credit-card digits and the email used; one X user reportedly used those details to get Lego's customer-service chatbot "Sophia" to cancel the order, while another said the delivery was reopened with the quantity changed to 400 and a new address. Lego declined to comment, and Musk said his order was not cancelled after all.

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