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In a nutshell: OpenAI has announced its first consumer hardware product, and it's not the smart speaker or phone that some were expecting. The Codex Micro is a mechanical keyboard designed for use with the company's Codex coding agent – think of it as a Stream Deck for ChatGPT.

Late last year, OpenAI announced a partnership with former Apple designer Jony Ive to build a screen-free AI gadget. Details are still pending, but the company said the gadget would be equipped with multiple cameras and sensors for spatial awareness. This is not that, but something else entirely.

Built with help from the team at Work Louder, the keypad features 13 mechanical switches, a touch sensor, a rotary dial to adjust reasoning level on the fly, and an analog stick. All of the inputs are fully customizable to best fit your workflow, and the kit ships with a few dozen extra keycaps to further fine-tune it to your needs.