Saturday, May 23, 2026
OpenAI's $850B IPO (and Codex goes mobile)
OpenAI is putting Codex directly into ChatGPT mobile (wild timing) while apparently preparing for an $850B IPO in the coming weeks, and Figure AI's warehouse robots are breaking the internet with their package-handling skills. Meanwhile, Figure's humanoid robots are going viral for smoothly handling packages in warehouses—actual useful work, not just demos. So OpenAI wants to go public at nearly a trillion dollars while giving away coding agents on your phone?
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OpenAI's Codex is now accessible via ChatGPT mobile apps, enabling users to manage AI agent workflows, approve tasks, and guide long-running coding work from their phones across multiple environments. The update includes Remote SSH support, programmatic access tokens, and HIPAA compliance for enterprise customers.
OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO in the coming days or weeks at an $850 billion valuation, setting up one of the largest public offerings ever as it faces mounting pressure to prove profitability amid fierce competition from Anthropic.
Figure AI's week-long livestream of humanoid robots autonomously sorting packages went viral, though the promotional demo offers limited insight into real-world capabilities. The Figure 03 robots use neural networks trained on extensive human motion data to perform warehouse tasks.
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New InferenceBench benchmark reveals that frontier AI coding agents can optimize LLM serving beyond default configurations but consistently underperform basic hyperparameter search due to poor experimental discipline—agents identify good optimizations but fail to validate and preserve them in final submissions.
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