OpenAI and Dell Technologies have announced support for running the coding agent Codex within hybrid and on-premises enterprise environments.
As part of the collaboration, Dell will connect Codex to its unified enterprise data architecture, AI Data Platform. This will allow enterprises to run Codex directly alongside their critical data, enriching the agent’s outputs with organisation-specific context while keeping all data secure.
The two companies also announced plans to explore Codex functionality gains within Dell AI Factory, Dell’s end-to-end framework for enterprise AI deployment. Codex, along with ChatGPT Enterprise and other agentic services available via OpenAI’s API, could be used for data preparation, data management, testing, and deployment within a Dell enterprise environment.
Ihab Tarazi, senior vice president and chief technology officer of the infrastructure solutions group at Dell described the collaboration as bringing together its “industry-leading enterprise grade infrastructure with cutting-edge agentic AI harnesses and models from OpenAI.”
“The Dell AI Factory with OpenAI Codex will allow enterprises to deploy AI where enterprise data already lives, within their premises, giving customers a practical, secure path to deploying AI agents at scale,” he said.
OpenAI says more than four million developers now use Codex each week and has stated its own engineers use the tool for internal product development.
In February the firm claimed that the latest Codex version, GPT‑5.3‑Codex, was the first model to help create itself, debugging its training runs and assisting developers with its final deployment.
Codex was originally intended purely for code generation, but OpenAI says it can now also be used for business tasks such as qualifying leads, drafting reports, and coordinating knowledge work.
This includes features such as computer use, which allow Codex to autonomously carry out tasks on a user’s computer including front-end testing and inbox management.
In March, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI will nearly double its workforce in 2026 and focus on its core enterprise offerings, in a push for wider customer adoption and commercial success. According to that report Fidji Simo, who oversees all of OpenAI’s product and business teams, had instructed staff to focus on making Codex a more effective and attractive tool for productivity.
The Wall Street Journal reported the same month that OpenAI is preparing to streamline its product offering by combining ChatGPT, Codex, and its AI browser Atlas into a unified app, with the addition of computer use and knowledge work capabilities within Codex representing the first step toward that goal.
