# When is OpenAI Codex coming to GPT-3 API and Playground? **URL:** \ **Category:** API\ **Created:** [June 29, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186 "2021-06-29T15:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/harish/32/4070_2.png) [@Harish](https://community.openai.com/u/Harish)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/1 "2021-06-29T15:12:33Z")
Github just released an early access AI code writing Assistant > **[GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer](https://github.com/features/copilot/)** > > GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you. They say on their website that they use OpenAI Codex, a new model based on GPT-3 Any plans to make this available in the API or the Playground? ---
**Author:** ![Harish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/harish/32/4070_2.png) [@Harish](https://community.openai.com/u/Harish)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/3 "2021-06-29T15:36:04Z")
right there with you, my friend. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/boris/32/701_2.png) [@boris](https://community.openai.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/4 "2021-06-29T15:39:42Z")
Codex should be available later this summer - stay tuned! ---
**Author:** ![Harish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/harish/32/4070_2.png) [@Harish](https://community.openai.com/u/Harish)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/6 "2021-06-30T07:11:05Z")
Check out this Open source Github copilot alternative - [Captain Stack - An Open Source alternative to Github Copilot | Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/captain-stack) ---
**Author:** ![rowbot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/rowbot/32/47_2.png) [@rowbot](https://community.openai.com/u/rowbot)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/8 "2021-06-30T18:56:15Z")
_holds breath with excitement_ ---
**Author:** ![bubbino3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/bubbino3/32/498_2.png) [@bubbino3](https://community.openai.com/u/bubbino3)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/9 "2021-06-30T20:44:16Z")
Thank you Harish. I believe the Github CoPilot might be currently offered as an extension on Visual Studio Code. ---
**Author:** ![Harish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/harish/32/4070_2.png) [@Harish](https://community.openai.com/u/Harish)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 7:31am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/11 "2021-07-01T07:31:53Z")
Interesting. A slightly different take on the same issue - [Is GitHub’s Copilot potentially infringing copyright? – TechnoLlama](https://www.technollama.co.uk/is-githubs-copilot-potentially-infringing-copyright) ---
**Author:** ![sebastian\_muench](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/sebastian_muench/32/2549_2.png) [@sebastian\_muench](https://community.openai.com/u/sebastian_muench)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/12 "2021-07-01T11:00:46Z")
Low and No Code and now this - future for designers sure looks bright (at least until we‘ll inevitably be replaced as well ^^)! ---
**Author:** ![JasonW](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/jasonw/32/100_2.png) [@JasonW](https://community.openai.com/u/JasonW)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/14 "2021-07-02T04:57:36Z")
Copilot supposedly generates novel code that matches your context, but Captain Stack just brings StackOverflow snippets into VSCode. There is a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![data](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/data/32/556_2.png) [@data](https://community.openai.com/u/data)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 9:29am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/16 "2021-07-02T09:29:10Z")
Crazy interesting! I never even thought about it, but when the code is being read as “Natural language”, does it still remain code? ---
**Author:** ![u2084511\_felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/u2084511_felix/32/3721_2.png) [@u2084511\_felix](https://community.openai.com/u/u2084511_felix)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/18 "2021-08-09T18:07:09Z")
Any updates for the forum? I just noticed a tweet from OpenAI about a livestream Codex demo tomorrow on twitch! Does this mean we are getting close to a beta release? Also, does having an API key grant access to Copilot? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Harish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/harish/32/4070_2.png) [@Harish](https://community.openai.com/u/Harish)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/19 "2021-08-10T05:35:18Z")
Seems like some movement on this from OpenAI - [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/openai) ---
**Author:** ![Harish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/harish/32/4070_2.png) [@Harish](https://community.openai.com/u/Harish)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/21 "2021-08-10T06:26:55Z")
Probably because Twitch has is a pretty good quality for Live streaming events to a large number of viewers. I wonder why a live streaming event though. Why not just release it in the API to the community and let us play with it a little while. Or is it something beyond just the API? I guess we will find out in few hours. ---
**Author:** ![Harish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/harish/32/4070_2.png) [@Harish](https://community.openai.com/u/Harish)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/23 "2021-08-11T05:55:46Z")
The live demo was impressive. There are some Videos for neat use cases on the announcement page - [OpenAI Codex](https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/) ---
**Author:** ![vertinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/vertinski/32/13457_2.png) [@vertinski](https://community.openai.com/u/vertinski)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/24 "2021-08-11T09:26:53Z")
To be honest – it’s pure magic, from what I saw at the live stream it got some skills! Waiting for the testing opportunity, to really dig in to the process. ---
**Author:** ![pappachuck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/pappachuck/32/643_2.png) [@pappachuck](https://community.openai.com/u/pappachuck)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/26 "2021-08-12T07:43:56Z")
I do controls for robotics, can it help me? I don’t think it is that magic yet. We got stress test it. ---
**Author:** ![EricGT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/ericgt/32/20571_2.png) [@EricGT](https://community.openai.com/u/EricGT)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/when-is-openai-codex-coming-to-gpt-3-api-and-playground/5186/27 "2023-12-21T08:08:52Z")