Codex Gets Plugins and Sites; New Open Models Released
OpenAI's Codex now offers Plugins and Sites, enabling users to create shareable websites with databases and file storage, initially for business and enterprise users. New open models include Google's multimodal Gemma 4 12B, Ideogram 4.0 for image generation with JSON prompts, and Miso One text-to-speech model. Microsoft introduced Scout, an always-on agent for Microsoft 365 built on OpenClaw. Ramp launched Stack, an accounting assistant for month-end close. Harvey fine-tuned Kimi 2.6 to beat Opus 4.7 on legal benchmarks at lower cost. Other releases include Factory Router for cost-efficient model routing, ViBench benchmark from Replit, and various tools like Hallmark v1.1, Skills for macOS, Ollie, and Television. Windsurf was rebranded as Devin Desktop. Cursor reported 40% of internal PRs from cloud agents. The newsletter also features tweets from Ethan Mollick, Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, and others on coding agents and software development.
Key facts
- Codex Plugins and Sites launched by OpenAI for business and enterprise users.
- Google released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model accepting images and audio.
- Ideogram 4.0 is a 9.3B image generation model trained on JSON prompts.
- Miso One is an 8B text-to-speech model with 110ms latency.
- Microsoft Scout is an always-on agent for Microsoft 365 built on OpenClaw.
- Ramp Stack is an accounting assistant for month-end close tasks.
- Harvey's Kimi 2.6 agent outperformed Opus 4.7 on legal benchmarks at ~11x lower cost.
- Factory Router routes agent sessions to optimal models, reducing costs by 20-25%.
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- Paul Graham
- Guillermo Rauch
- Peter Steinberger
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- Cursor
- Windsurf
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- Ollie
- Television
- Attio
- Plaid
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