OpenAI Codex introduces desktop floating pets that can display work status in real-time

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AIMPACT News, May 3 (UTC+8): OpenAI has introduced a desktop floating pet feature in Codex, its programming tool, supporting users in customizing pixel-style companions. The pet can be displayed globally across the screen, showing the Codex backend’s live work status such as “Thinking” and “Task Completed,” and providing feedback on AI progress through bubbles and motion cues. Codex officially includes 8 basic pets, and it also supports uploading images via the /hatch command to automatically generate animated pets. The community has created many popular characters, including recreations of Microsoft’s Big-Eyed Clip, Mac Finder’s smiley face, Steve Jobs–style pets, DeepSeek whales, and more. PetShare, PetDex, and other pet encyclopedia websites have emerged as well. The official hosted a contest: entries in the Top 10 will receive a 30-day ChatGPT Pro reward. In the same period’s updates, Codex added cross-platform migration for configuration files, enabling it to automatically detect and import settings for tools such as Claude Code; it also added a dictation dictionary with support for custom abbreviation recognition. OpenAI CEO Altman said Codex is in a “ChatGPT moment,” as the product evolves toward a highly sticky desktop super-application.

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