Jensen Huang sends all-hands email embracing OpenAI Codex: over 10,000 NVIDIA employees are already using it, with GPT-5.5 running on GB200

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang personally sent an all-hands email calling on employees to fully adopt OpenAI's latest tool, Codex, and publicly disclosed that over 10,000 employees across 9 departments are already using it. This move not only symbolizes the deepening cooperation between the two tech giants, but it is also intriguing that the GPT-5.5 powering Codex is running on NVIDIA's own GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems. (Previous coverage: OpenAI launches new engineer agent Codex! AI can write functions, fix bugs, run tests... limited to 3 types of users for early access) (Background: Massive! NVIDIA invests $100 billion to partner with OpenAI, co-build 10GW AI data center, NVDA jumps 3.9%) The email from Jensen Huang caused quite a stir in the tech circle this week—not because of any shocking secret, but because Sam Altman posted it directly on X. According to the official NVIDIA blog, the core of the letter is the announcement that OpenAI Codex, powered by GPT-5.5, has been fully opened to employees. It explicitly lists 9 departments: Engineering, Product, Legal, Marketing, Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Operations, and Developer Programs—with over 10,000 NVIDIANs already using the tool. The conclusion of the letter follows his signature style—the official NVIDIA blog quoted the original text verbatim: "Let’s jump to lightspeed. Welcome to the age of AI." NVIDIA noted on its official blog that Codex is now powered by GPT-5.5—OpenAI's latest frontier model—and the underlying compute for this model is NVIDIA's own GB200 NVL72 rack-scale system. OpenAI officially released GPT-5.5 to paid subscribers on Thursday (4/23), just 6 weeks after the previous generation GPT-5.4, showing that the pace at which frontier AI labs are competing for enterprise customers is breathtaking. For NVIDIA, the signal from this all-hands email is clear: the best AI tools run on the best AI chips. Jensen Huang doesn't need to say much; this logic itself is the most powerful advertisement. Jensen Huang specifically named 9 departments in the letter: Engineering, Product, Legal, Marketing, Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Operations, and Developer Programs. This list itself is a manifesto—Codex is not just for those who write code. The letter positions Codex as "not just for coders"—the screenshot posted by Sam Altman shows Jensen Huang describing the AI agent as a "teammate" for every employee, emphasizing that it makes work "better, smarter, and faster." However, it should be noted: except for the closing line "Let’s jump to lightspeed" which was quoted verbatim by the official NVIDIA blog, the rest of the letter's content is based on the screenshot posted by Sam Altman on X and reports from foreign media. It is worth noting that the official NVIDIA blog uses the term "already using" to describe the rollout—indicating the current status rather than a top-down mandate. After Sam Altman posted the screenshot, foreign media outlets like Gurufocus and Futunn mostly used terms like "encouraged" and "urging everyone to use" to describe Jensen Huang's actions—which, in Chinese, are closer to "encouragement" and "calling for" rather than "mandatory requirement." To understand the background of this letter, one cannot ignore the complex interests between NVIDIA and OpenAI. On the surface, this is a deep partnership: NVIDIA previously announced a $100 billion investment to partner with OpenAI to build a 10GW AI data center, and foreign media reported on a $30 billion stake negotiation—if realized, NVIDIA would become one of OpenAI's major shareholders. Jensen Huang's personal call for all employees to adopt Codex is simply pushing this partnership deeper. But cracks also exist. OpenAI is actively pushing its own AI chip development project, expecting to complete the design this year and hand it over to TSMC for trial production, aiming to reduce reliance on NVIDIA's computing power. On the other hand, AMD has also secured a 10% stake in OpenAI, making both AI chip manufacturers hardware partners of OpenAI, with an increasingly subtle competitive and cooperative relationship. From this perspective, the significance of Jensen Huang's letter is not just "promoting an AI tool"—he has explicitly tied the daily productivity of over 10,000 NVIDIA employees to OpenAI's model ecosystem. This is both a public endorsement of the depth of the partnership and can be interpreted as a gesture of goodwill: we are your most loyal users, you don't need to build your own chips. Jensen Huang loves using the term "lightspeed"—it's a Star Wars reference and a consistent part of his

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