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OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments

OpenAI Blog · 2026-05-18

OpenAI and Dell Technologies announce a partnership to deploy Codex in hybrid and on-premises enterprise environments by connecting the AI coding agent to the Dell AI Data Platform and Dell AI Factory.

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Topics: ai-coding-agentsenterprise-aiopenai-codexhybrid-cloudagentic-workflows

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  • More than 4 million developers use OpenAI Codex weekly, making it one of OpenAI's fastest-growing enterprise products.
  • The partnership will connect Codex to Dell's on-premises AI Data Platform, giving enterprises access to internal codebases, documentation, and operational workflows.
  • Codex is expanding beyond software development into broader knowledge work including report preparation, lead qualification, and cross-system workflow coordination.
  • Dell and OpenAI will explore integrating Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise with the Dell AI Factory for data preparation, system management, and deployment of AI applications.

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Agents are only as useful as what they can connect to.
Collaborating with OpenAI brings together Dell's 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.
Codex can be deployed closer to enterprise data and systems, with the controls large organizations need and the flexibility to support more use cases across software development and knowledge work.