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OpenAI Enters Hardware Market With $230 Codex Keyboard

OpenAI Enters Hardware Market With $230 Codex Keyboard

The keyboard integrates directly with the ChatGPT desktop app, offering users tactile control over semi-autonomous coding workflows. Key features include light-up Agent Keys, customizable Command Keys, and a dedicated dial to throttle the reasoning power allocated to specific tasks. While the company frames the device as a command center for agentic labor, OpenAI representatives confirmed the Micro is a limited-run collaboration, functioning more as a high-end novelty than a mass-market product.

Beyond this peripheral, the company is reportedly developing a more ambitious piece of hardware: a portable, screenless smart speaker featuring moving mechanical elements. This device, currently in early development, is being designed by a team of former Apple engineers. The timing of this expansion is marked by rising tensions, as Apple recently filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. The litigation alleges that OpenAI leadership engaged in a calculated scheme to misappropriate confidential trade secrets to accelerate its own hardware development—a charge OpenAI has explicitly denied.

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