OpenAI readies unified Codex app and India Pro tier

OpenAI is lining up a broader push around Codex, with a desktop app that could fold chat, browsing and coding into one place as it expands paid tiers in India. (testingcatalog.com) OpenAI officially introduced the Codex app on February 2, 2026 for macOS, then said on March 4 that it was also available on Windows. The company described it as a desktop “command center” for running multiple agents in parallel on long-running software tasks. (openai.com) TestingCatalog reported on April 11 that code inside the existing Codex client points to a larger desktop product that could absorb ChatGPT and an Atlas browser, with a new Scratchpad interface for launching several Codex chats from a to-do list at once. The report also cited “heartbeat” references that suggest persistent background connections for longer tasks. (testingcatalog.com) The product logic is straightforward: OpenAI’s own Codex post says developers are now supervising several agents across projects, not just prompting one chatbot in one window. The company said existing integrated development environments and terminal tools were not built for that kind of parallel work. (openai.com) OpenAI is also widening the pricing ladder around that workflow in India. The Times of India reported on April 11 that ChatGPT Pro now costs ₹10,699 a month there, between a ₹399 Go plan, a ₹1,999 Plus plan and a separate $200 top-tier plan that remained available but was not listed on the main pricing page. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) That India tier is aimed at heavier coding use. The Times of India said the new Pro plan offers about five times the Codex capacity of Plus, while OpenAI said in its February Codex announcement that it had doubled Codex rate limits across paid plans and briefly included Codex with Free and Go. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (openai.com) India matters here because OpenAI is trying to sell developer-facing tools into a large price-sensitive market while rivals are doing the same. The Times of India said OpenAI put Codex at more than 3 million weekly users globally and compared the new Indian tier with plans from Anthropic, Google and Perplexity. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) At the same time, OpenAI is heading into a court fight with Elon Musk that could reshape its finances and governance. Bloomberg reported on April 11 that a trial is set for April 27, after Musk’s 2024 suit accused OpenAI and Microsoft of abandoning OpenAI’s original mission; both companies have denied wrongdoing. (bloomberg.com) OpenAI said in a late Friday filing that Musk changed his requested remedies weeks before trial, calling the move a “legal ambush.” Bloomberg reported that Musk had earlier told the court he was seeking $79 billion to $134 billion in “wrongful gains,” then later said any recovery should go back to OpenAI rather than to him personally. (bloomberg.com) So OpenAI enters the next few weeks trying to do two things at once: turn Codex into a broader desktop hub for work, and defend the corporate structure behind it in court. The immediate dates to watch are the reported product changes after April 11 and the Musk trial now scheduled for April 27. (testingcatalog.com) (bloomberg.com)