OpenAI investigates decline in Codex usage and offers reset to all users

Dot察 Beating AI News: Tibo Sottiaux, head of OpenAI Codex, has responded again to the controversy over reduced quotas. He added that OpenAI has not detected any anomalies in the overall usage system, but the investigation is still ongoing. His previous response regarding sub2api was intended only to explain a specific scenario discovered by the team and cannot account for why all users’ quotas suddenly dropped faster. This is somewhat awkward. Just hours ago, Tibo claimed that many affected users were converting their subscriptions into API access via sub2api and redistributing them to multiple users, thereby triggering the anti-fraud system. Now he has clearly stated that the cause of accelerated quota consumption has not yet been determined. In other words, this round of controversy cannot yet be simply attributed to proxying or subscription sharing. Meanwhile, Codex’s weekly active users have surpassed 20 million this week. To celebrate this milestone, OpenAI will grant all Codex and ChatGPT Work users a one-time “Banked Reset,” which can be stored and used at any time to restore quota once. CNBC previously reported that OpenAI’s AI programming and productivity products have reached 20 million weekly active users. OpenAI still has not provided a definitive answer on whether quotas were uniformly reduced. This time, they clarified that sub2api is merely one issue identified during their investigation—not the final conclusion behind this round of quota reductions.