Thibault "Tibo" Sottiaux, head of OpenAI Codex, stated: "Good products take time, at least 34 days." The post did not specify the product, feature, release date, or specific development milestones.

The mention of "34 days" has sparked speculation in the community about the release date of OpenAI's next-generation model, Astra, but this is merely a third-party interpretation; Sottiaux did not mention Astra, GPT-6, Codex version updates, or any countdown arrangements in the original post.

Sottiaux's recent public communications have mainly focused on managing computing quotas for Codex and ChatGPT Work. OpenAI has reinstated a five-hour usage window limit for ChatGPT Plus users since August 25 to smooth out computational load and prevent users from exhausting their weekly quota in a single long session.

This quota adjustment does not affect Pro, Enterprise, and Edu subscriptions; Sottiaux stated that Pro users will not see the five-hour limit reinstated in the coming months. This move reflects the ongoing demand for reasoning power due to high-intensity proxy programming and long-context workflows in Codex.

Sottiaux previously mentioned that Codex and ChatGPT Work reached 20 million active users in the week of August, and provided paid users with a "banked reset" quota that they could choose to use at their convenience; this user data was disclosed by him, and OpenAI has not released an independent product statistics page.

From a market mechanism perspective, a short internal post from a product lead without product details does not change model supply or OpenAI's revenue but does drive expectations and social discourse around Astra, GPT-6, and Codex upgrades. The real variables affecting users and developers remain whether the model is released, its performance-to-price ratio, API and subscription quotas, context capacity, and reasoning latency; before these disclosures, "34 days" can only be seen as an unverified contextual statement.

Source: Public Information