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genai/news//The New Indian Express
OpenAI's AI-powered Codex has recorded rapid growth in India.
OpenAI Codex's weekly active users in India grew 27 times since early 2026.
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India is now a top five country globally for Codex adoption and among top ten for engagement.
Over 25% of Codex requests in India are for non-coding tasks like drafting documents and automating research.
Indian companies including TCS, Infosys, and Razorpay are collaborating with OpenAI on Codex enterprise integration.
Codex usage in India for coding tasks is about three times the global average as of February.
BENGALURU: OpenAI's AI-powered coding and productivity tool Codex has recorded rapid growth in India, with weekly active users increasing 27 times since the beginning of 2026, according to data shared by the company.
The company said daily interactions with Codex had risen more than 20-fold by late April. India now ranks among the top five countries globally for Codex adoption and among the top ten for engagement.
The data also showed that Codex is increasingly being used for tasks beyond software development. More than a quarter of all Codex requests in India are now for non-coding activities, including synthesising information, drafting documents, automating research tasks, and organising workflows and communication.
The latest figures build on earlier findings from OpenAI Signals released in February. At the time, the company reported that Codex use for coding tasks in India was about three times the global average, while coding-related questions were nearly three times the global median.
OpenAI said the trend reflects a broader shift in how people are using AI tools. While developers remain a key user group, Codex is also gaining traction among founders, operators, researchers, students and business teams looking to move more quickly from ideas to execution.
“What’s exciting about India is that adoption is not just happening among software engineers. We’re seeing founders, operators, researchers, students, and business teams increasingly use Codex to turn ideas into working outcomes faster,” said Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups - APAC at OpenAI.
“Codex may have started as a coding product, but increasingly people are using it to move from intent to execution across almost all aspects of work. India already has one of the world’s strongest builder cultures, and the pace of adoption here reflects how actively people are building with leading-edge AI tools,” he added.
OpenAI said Codex adoption in India is being supported by a growing builder ecosystem and increasing enterprise use, including collaborations with TCS, Infosys and Razorpay across software engineering and enterprise workflows.