AI News reported on June 24, 2026 that Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work.

Who gets access

  • OpenAI said the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXperience (DX) employees worldwide.
  • The DX division includes smartphones, consumer electronics, and home appliances.

How Samsung plans to use the tools

  • Samsung plans to use the tools in software development, marketing, product development, manufacturing, and other business functions.
  • Supported tasks include information search, document drafting, idea development, data interpretation, and code-related work.
  • OpenAI said ChatGPT can support knowledge-based tasks such as searching for information, analysing material, drafting documents, developing ideas, and interpreting data.

Why this follows a 2023 restriction

  • The rollout comes three years after Samsung restricted employee use of generative AI tools over data-security concerns.
  • In 2023, the company limited ChatGPT and similar tools after concerns that sensitive internal information had been uploaded to an external AI platform.
  • The new deployment uses ChatGPT Enterprise, which OpenAI said includes controls for data protection, user access, and security management.

Codex scope OpenAI describes

  • Codex will be used for software-related tasks such as writing, reviewing, and debugging code.
  • OpenAI said Codex is also used for internal tools, websites, software prototypes, and automated workflows, including support for non-technical teams.
  • OpenAI said Codex now has more than five million weekly users across technical and non-technical workflows.
  • In Korea, weekly active users of Codex have grown nearly 800% since February 1, 2026, according to OpenAI.

What OpenAI and Samsung leaders said

  • Harrison Kim, general manager of OpenAI Korea, said the agreement is one of OpenAI's largest enterprise deployments.
  • He said Samsung is using AI across teams and functions rather than limiting it to specific departments.

Infrastructure context cited in the piece

  • In October 2025, Samsung said it would work with OpenAI as a strategic memory partner for the Stargate AI infrastructure initiative, with OpenAI's memory demand projected to reach up to 900,000 DRAM wafers per month.
  • Samsung SDS entered a potential partnership to jointly develop AI data centres and provide enterprise AI services, and signed a reseller partnership to offer OpenAI services in Korea.
  • Reuters reported that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix signed letters of intent to supply memory chips for Stargate; the two South Korean chipmakers together account for about 70% of the global DRAM market and nearly 80% of the high-bandwidth memory market, according to the piece.

Adoption benchmarks AI News mentions

  • Deloitte's 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise report found 66% of organisations reported productivity or efficiency gains from enterprise AI adoption and 53% reported improved insights and decision-making.
  • A Bpifrance survey reported by Reuters found 77% of 534 French mid-sized company heads said their firms used generative AI, but only 17% of those using it reported time savings.

Primary source: AI News — Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions (June 24, 2026).