OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex Codes
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OpenAI has hired the team behind Alex Codes, a popular tool that integrated AI models into Apple's Xcode development suite. The team is joining OpenAI's Codex division to build AI coding agents, though Alex will stop accepting new downloads after October 1 while maintaining support for existing users. This acqui-hire comes shortly after OpenAI's $1.1 billion acquisition of product testing startup Statsig.
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