OpenAI partners with Infosys to bring Codex into enterprise software workflows

OpenAI has moved Codex deeper into corporate software by partnering with Infosys, a deal announced April 22 that folds the coding assistant into Infosys Topaz and targets software development, modernization and DevOps across large enterprises. OpenAI said Codex usage had topped 4 million weekly users and that its global systems integrator partners, including Infosys, are meant to move customers from pilots to production-ready deployments.

For Infosys, the collaboration fits a business already built for packaging AI into existing client workflows. Topaz is described by the company as an AI-first stack with more than 12,000 AI assets, 150-plus pre-trained models and 10-plus AI platforms, while the new OpenAI tie-up is framed as structured co-innovation, scalable enterprise delivery and responsible adoption of agentic AI. Infosys said the first use cases would center on software engineering, legacy modernization, DevOps automation and other engineering-led work, the same areas where clients are trying to extract more productivity from cautious technology budgets.

The deal also highlights how the AI contest is shifting from model spectacle to channel control. OpenAI had already lined up HCLTech as one of its first strategic services partners in June 2025, and Infosys later announced a separate collaboration with Anthropic to combine Claude with Topaz for enterprise workflows and legacy modernization. Infosys’s own Topaz Fabric materials say the platform is meant to build on existing IT investments and avoid vendor lock-ins, underscoring that the real prize is becoming the layer large corporations trust to translate frontier models into daily work.

The timing matters. Infosys announced the OpenAI partnership one day before reporting fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results on April 23, when it posted consolidated net profit of about 8,501 crore, revenue of about 46,402 crore and a final dividend of 25 a share, while guiding fiscal 2027 revenue growth at 1.5% to 3.5%. With Infosys’s NYSE-listed ADR down 21.76% over the past year and about 25.56% over three months, the company is under pressure to show that AI is not only a threat to outsourcing margins but also a source of new enterprise revenue.