NEW Codex Micro Is INSANE!

OpenAI just launched its first real piece of hardware, and it's not the AI speaker everyone was expecting. It's a small keyboard called Codex Micro, and it's built to control a team of AI agents at once. Here's what's actually on it. Six lit up keys, one dial, a tiny joystick.

It comes at a real cost to own, so we won't get into numbers here. We'll get straight into what it does, because what it does matters more than what it costs. Right now, most people run AI agents through an app or a browser tab. You open the tab, you check on your agent, you close it, you open another tab for a different agent.

All day long, Codex Micro takes that whole habit and puts it into your hand. Each agent key lights up with a live status from Codex, so you can tell what an agent is thinking, running, waiting on, or finish with before you even switch chats. Let's slow down on that, because it's the whole point of the keyboard. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency.

Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. Julian Goldie reads every comment, so make sure you comment below. Six keys, six agents. Each key glows a different color depending on what that agent is doing.

White means it's sitting idle, blue means it's still thinking, green means it's done, red means something broken needs you. One tap picks the agent tied to that key, a double tap brings it to the front of your screen. You don't open anything to know your work is moving, you just glance down at your desk. Here's the part that actually made me pay attention.

This isn't exciting because it's new hardware, it's exciting because of what it tells us about where AI is headed. Two years ago, Microsoft added a single co-pilot key to some keyboards. One button, one job. Press it, a chat window opens.

That was the whole idea back then. Two years later, Codex Micro is a full control panel for people who live inside AI agents all day. That's the jump. From one button that opens a single chat, to a whole board built to run a small team of agents working at the same time.

Think of it like this. One chatbot is like having one assistant who can only do one thing at a time. You ask, you wait, you get an answer, then you ask again. A team of agents is different.

It's like having a few assistants in different rooms, each working on their own piece of a bigger job and you're the one checking each room without needing to walk inside. That's what those six agent keys really are. Room lights, six rooms, six flashes of color telling you exactly who needs your attention and who doesn't. The dial does something just as useful.

It controls how hard an agent thinks before answering. Turn it one way for a fast draft, turn it the other way and the agent slows down using more computing power on a harder task. A quick task gets a quick answer. A tricky task gets more time and care.

You decide which is which with a twist of your wrist instead of digging through a settings menu. There's also that joystick. Flick it to launch common workflows like reviewing a piece of work, hunting down a mistake or cleaning something up. One flick instead of five clicks.

Now let's be honest because I always want to give you the full picture, not just the shiny part. Not everyone thinks you need this thing. One tech writer covering the launch asked outright whether you need a codex micro and answered no. Calling it a fun little toy and saying whether it actually makes you more productive is still unclear.

That's a fair point. A board of physical buttons is a strange answer to a tool built entirely on typing plain sentences to a computer. The whole appeal of AI coding was cutting down the number of clicks between an idea and a finished tool and here comes a board of buttons pushing the other way. But here's why I still think this matters even if you never touch one.

It's a signal. It tells you exactly what OpenAI thinks work looks like soon. Not one person, one prompt, one answer. A person running a small team of agents all working at once all checking in with that person through the day.

Whether you ever buy a codex micro or not, that shift is already coming for the way a lot of us work. I want to pause here because this connects directly to something we talk about constantly. If you're building something like the AI profit boardroom, this exact setup saves real hours every week. Picture one agent told to dig up every meaningful AI tool release from the last day.

A second agent takes that research and turns it into a short update our members can read in two minutes. A third agent checks that update against our style before it reaches anyone's inbox. That's not three tabs you're babysitting all afternoon. That's three colored lights telling you exactly where to look.

Inside the AI profit boardroom, this is the kind of multi-agent setup we walk members through so they can run their own content, follow up with leads and support customers without losing their whole day to checking on AI one tab at a time. If that's something you want in your own business, the AI profit boardroom is linked in the comments and description. Alright, let's keep going. Let's talk about who OpenAI actually built this for and why now.

The keyboard is a collaboration with WorkLauder, a company known for programmable keyboards and macro pads. WorkLauder already made the hardware. OpenAI mostly supplied a logo and a set of default button mappings, so this wasn't built from nothing. It's a remix of a keyboard WorkLauder already knew how to build well, dressed up for codecs.

The timing tells its own story too. This launch reflects OpenAI wanting an AI ecosystem that goes beyond software alone. It's a way to test whether people actually want physical controls for their AI work before trying something much bigger. Because something bigger is coming, reports point to a separate screenless AI companion device, one that can move on its own, expected to be announced by the end of the year and to launch sometime in 2027.

Let's talk about how many people this actually touches. Codex was already being used by 5 million people every week as of last month and that number is closing in on 9 million total users. That's not a small group, that's a lot of people opening codecs, checking an agent, closing it, opening the next one, over and over all day long, even if only a slice of them by the keyboard, that's still a big number of people whose daily habit just changed shape. Let's paint a picture of what a normal day looks like with this thing, because that's more useful than a spec sheet.

Say you're running the AI profit boardroom's daily content. Without the keyboard, you're bouncing between tabs trying to remember which agent is doing what. With it, you glance down and see one key glowing blue, still researching the latest AI news for members. One glowing green, finished writing today's tutorial.

One glowing red, it hit a snag summarizing a tricky update and needs your eyes. You tap the red one, you fix it, you move on. No hunting, no guessing, just color telling you exactly where your attention needs to go. That's the whole idea in one sentence.

Less searching for what needs you, more time actually doing the work that needs you. Here's the plain truth under all of this. AI agents are only going to get more common in daily work, not less. The people who get comfortable running more than one at a time, checking in, guiding them, catching their mistakes, are going to move faster than everyone still doing it one prompt at a time.

You don't need a keyboard to start, you need the habit. And that's exactly what we build inside the AI profit boardroom. We don't just talk about multi-agent workflows, we run them ourselves, using agents to research AI news for members, draft daily tutorials, and check every piece of content before it goes out, all working side by side instead of one person doing it alone. Every week we run coaching calls, walking members through setting up this exact kind of system in their own businesses, so they can save time, follow up with more leads, and take care of more customers without doing everything themselves.

We've got daily tutorials showing the exact setup, step by step, a full roadmap so you're never guessing where to start, and a community of people already running these workflows who can help you get yours working too. If any part of this sounds like something your business needs, the AI profit boardroom is linked in the comments and description below. And if you want somewhere free to start, the AI success lab has the full breakdown of this exact multi-agent workflow, the same one we use to run our own content and research, plus over 100 other AI use cases laid out step by step. You'll get the notes from this video there too, along with access to a community of people already using AI to move faster in their own work.

Links are in the comments and description. Here's what stuck with me most about all of this. A year ago, most people were still figuring out how to write one good prompt. Now OpenAI is building physical hardware just to help people manage a team of AI agents at once.

That's how fast this moved, and it's not slowing down. The people who learn to run a small team of agents now are going to be miles ahead of the people still doing everything the slow way a year from now. So don't wait for the fancy keyboard, start the habit today.