Thibault Sottiaux, head of OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT core products, responded to quota discussions, stating that preferential services for existing users include occasional resets of usage. Some users speculate that there will be no resets close to the weekend.

The community refers to the additional quota restoration he announced as the "Tibo reset," distinct from the account's built-in periodic quota. Public operations include: a complete reset after rewriting the usage statistics system; resetting for all users when anti-abuse rules mistakenly affect them; performing a hard reset during investigations, at which time some users had accumulated up to three optional resets. There are also backup resets to celebrate active user milestones and to compensate for interruptions in specific features. He led a log check on Sunday to address rapid quota consumption.

Sottiaux oversees both Codex and ChatGPT, reporting to Greg Brockman. Codex operates through an open-source command line and multi-model interface, with usage being a hard constraint of paid subscriptions. The company had previously suspended new purchases of the $200 Pro tier to allocate capacity for existing users and Astra features, while other packages and APIs remain open. Third-party sites compile his reset statements, noting that there is no fixed public timetable.

Buyers are paid developers whose quotas are exhausted and are waiting for the next announcement; sellers are the Codex team, exchanging free resets for retention and reputation. The driving force is capacity and billing calibration, not new models. Funding comes from unbilled inference costs, allocated from gross profit to existing users. Beneficiaries are accounts that have paid and are running low on quotas; those under pressure are new subscriptions and high-tier purchases that have been suspended within the same compute pool.

Source: Public information