OpenAI engineer Charlie Marsh announced a renewal of Codex for OSS, offering open-source maintainers $100 Pro plans and doubling the grant pool from 5,000 to 10,000. The program includes AI code review and security tooling for critical projects, expanding agent-assisted engineering across open source.

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  • ✓The Pro grant pool doubles from 5,000 to 10,000 places, and previous recipients may re-apply
  • ✓The $100 Pro plans target open-source maintainers building and maintaining critical projects
  • ✓The program includes AI code review and security tooling for practical software engineering
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