Nvidia rolls Codex to 10K staff

Nvidia said more than 10,000 employees are already using OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-powered Codex across the company. (blogs.nvidia.com) The rollout covers engineering, product, legal, marketing, finance, sales, human resources, operations and developer programs, according to Nvidia’s April 23 post. Jensen Huang told employees in an email, “Let’s jump to lightspeed. Welcome to the age of AI.” (blogs.nvidia.com) Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent, a tool that can write, debug, test and validate software from natural-language prompts. OpenAI added GPT-5.5 to Codex on April 23 and called it the recommended model for implementation, refactors, debugging, testing and knowledge-work tasks. (developers.openai.com) Nvidia said the system is running on its GB200 NVL72 rack-scale servers, which it said deliver 35 times lower cost per million tokens and 50 times higher token output per second per megawatt than prior-generation systems. (blogs.nvidia.com) Inside Nvidia, the company said debugging cycles that used to take days are closing in hours, and experiments that once took weeks in large multi-file codebases are now finishing overnight. Nvidia also said teams are shipping end-to-end features from natural-language prompts with fewer wasted cycles than earlier models. (blogs.nvidia.com) Nvidia said it built the deployment around cloud virtual machines for each employee, giving every agent its own sandbox. The company said the setup uses remote Secure Shell connections, a zero-data-retention policy and read-only access to production systems through command-line tools. (blogs.nvidia.com) OpenAI said on April 21 that Codex had grown from more than 3 million weekly developers in early April to more than 4 million two weeks later. It also said companies including Virgin Atlantic, Ramp, Notion, Cisco and Rakuten are already using Codex in production workflows. (openai.com) OpenAI said Codex is moving beyond software engineering into browser-based work, image generation, memory and tool use across apps. Its April changelog also said the Codex app now includes browser use and computer-use features for testing interfaces and handling graphical tasks. (openai.com) (developers.openai.com) The Nvidia rollout puts one of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence infrastructure companies in the position of both supplier and heavy internal user. That makes the company a public case study for how coding agents are shifting from pilot projects to standard workplace software. (blogs.nvidia.com) (openai.com)