OpenAI Plans AI Tools for Finance, Legal in Race With Anthropic

OpenAI is expanding the functionality of its artificial intelligence coding agent for a number of professions beyond software engineering, a bid to compete with rivals such as Anthropic PBC in signing up more business customers.

The ChatGPT maker on Tuesday unveiled a series of new tools, or plugins, for its Codex agent that are intended for fielding tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, among other roles. OpenAI said it plans to add more features soon for legal and corporate finance. And the company plans to integrate Codex into its flagship chatbot.

OpenAI and Anthropic have been locked in a heated contest ...