It’s also open source, OpenAI says. “ [Codex CLI is] a lightweight, open source coding agent that runs locally in your terminal,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch via email.

Google launched a new, open source AI coding tool for terminals, Gemini CLI, to compete with similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Google has introduced Gemini CLI, a free, open-source AI tool designed to work directly in the developer’s terminal. The company says it wants to bring the power of Gemini into the hands of ...

Enter Gemini CLI, Google’s latest contribution to the world of developer tools. Positioned as a free and open source alternative to premium offerings like GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI is more than ...

Gemini CLI is available “free-of-charge” with a personal Google Account and free Gemini Code Assist license. This gives you access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and its 1 million token context window.

It's called Gemini CLI, and it shares a lot with Gemini Code Assist, but it works in your terminal environment instead of integrating with an IDE. And perhaps best of all, it's free and open source.

Also, Gemini CLI can work with other apps, not just Google's Gemini-based AI tools. It supports MCP, so developers can plug it into all sorts of tools that also support the interconnectivity protocol.

OpenAI recently announced rewriting its Codex CLI in Rust. Codex CLI stack originally features React, TypeScript and Node. The rewrite seeks security and performance gains on top of improved developer ...

Google has released a powerful new tool aimed squarely at developers and it runs right from the terminal. Meet Gemini CLI, an open-source command-line interface powered by Google’s Gemini AI ...

We show you how you can install, configure, and use Codex CLI to turn your text into code and to understand code a bit better.