OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, said on March 31 it held a closed-door "OpenAI Codex CTO Forum" at the Josun Palace hotel in Seoul's Gangnam district. About 120 technology leaders at the chief technology officer level from large companies and startups attended.

The forum's main theme was that AI development is shifting from a focus on code autocomplete to a "coding teammate" model in which AI works across the development process. Codex performs not only code writing, editing, debugging and testing through natural-language commands, but also refactoring. It has recently evolved into a "delegation" agent that is directly assigned specific tasks to handle.

Albert Yip (알버트 입), OpenAI's head of technical support for Asia-Pacific, and Gi-eok Ryu (류기억), an OpenAI engineer for Codex technology adoption, presented on agent trends and internal use cases, respectively.

Codex has been spreading rapidly this year, OpenAI said. In February, the MacBook app logged 1 million downloads in its first week after release, and a Windows app was launched on March 5. Sam Altman (샘 올트먼), OpenAI's CEO, has said that Codex weekly users have more than tripled this year.

Kyounghoon Kim (김경훈), country manager of OpenAI Korea, said, "It was a venue that showed that an era in which AI collaborates like a member of the team has already begun."