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OpenAI launched Codex for Students, offering $100 in free Codex credits to college students in the US and Canada. The stated goal is to support learning by building, breaking, and fixing things – a framing that positions Codex as an educational tool rather than a homework shortcut. This follows OpenAI’s earlier move giving free ChatGPT Pro access to open-source maintainers of projects with 1,000+ GitHub stars. The pattern is clear: OpenAI is using Codex credits as a distribution strategy, seeding the tool with the two groups most likely to become long-term power users – students who’ll enter the workforce expecting it and maintainers whose projects define developer toolchains. GitHub Copilot ran a nearly identical playbook with its free student tier years ago, and the conversion rates justified the investment.
