Cognizant Commits 25,000 Staff to OpenAI Delivery, Forms Frontier Capability Group Around Codex

Cognizant said Thursday it is standing up an OpenAI Frontier Capability Group with more than 25,000 professionals, aligning its workforce around delivering OpenAI products including Codex and ChatGPT into Fortune 500 operations. CEO Ravi Kumar framed Codex and ChatGPT as the two sides of a shift from AI-assisted work to AI-native work. The group's early scope spans AI-native software engineering with Codex, Cognizant's Application Modernizer offering, and agentic customer-operations work; a cited biopharma deployment has handled 5M+ conversations and cut content creation time 60%.