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Cognizant is embedding Codex across its global software engineering organization and working with OpenAI to bring Codex-driven development to clients across industries. 

OpenAI is working with a group of global systems integrators chosen for their ability to deploy and scale Codex inside complex enterprise environments and deliver the services enabled by those capabilities to clients. Cognizant’s selection reflects its track record as an AI builder: designing, deploying and operating AI-powered systems at enterprise scale, across industries and in its own operations.

“The best engineering organisations of the next decade will not be defined by how many engineers they have, but by how effectively human judgment and AI capability work as one,” said Rajesh Varrier, President, Operations and Chairman and MD, Cognizant India. “We are embedding Codex as a partner in how our engineers work – handling code generation, refactoring, testing and documentation – so our teams can apply human judgment where it is needed most. OpenAI brings frontier intelligence. Cognizant brings enterprise scale, deep industry expertise and the governance rigor that industry requires.”

Cognizant engineers are already applying Codex across the software development lifecycle in client engagements, including AI and machine learning model development, code refactoring, agentic solution development and legacy system modernisation. These deployments demonstrate Codex’s ability to help accelerate delivery cycles, support improved code quality and help reduce the cost and risk of large-scale modernization programs, including the kind of legacy transformation work that has historically stalled for years due to complexity, regulatory risk and tribal knowledge dependencies.

“Codex is becoming a powerful workspace for managing agents across software development and business workflows. As enterprises move quickly to put Codex to work, we’re working with leading partners like Cognizant to help more organizations move from early usage to repeatable deployment,” said Denise Dresser, Chief Revenue Officer, OpenAI. “Cognizant’s deep expertise in large-scale software transformation enables enterprises to deploy Codex across areas like legacy code modernisation, code review automation, vulnerability detection and application development. It also extends its impact to the systems and workflows where knowledge work gets done. We will work together to bring Codex to organizations worldwide.”

The partnership adds OpenAI’s Codex capabilities to Cognizant’s AI builder stack, which spans AI platforms and hyperscalers. Cognizant’s AI builder strategy is built on the principle that closing the gap between AI investment and business outcomes requires more than access to frontier models, it requires enterprise context, workflow integration and accountability for delivery and operational integration in production.