Summary
OpenAI team members discuss the Codex Ambassador Program, a community initiative designed to bring Codex and the GPT-5 series of models closer to developers, tinkerers and creators around the world. The conversation covers how the program began and what it has become.
The program started with a plan for roughly 15 to 20 ambassadors and has grown to more than 150 ambassadors across over 80 countries, who have hosted more than 300 online and in-person events. One standout moment was a Codex community event held on a running metro in Kochi, India, where participants coded together using Codex.
The speakers also describe Build Week, held around the release of the GPT-5.6 series of models, when ambassadors organized more than 60 events across Tokyo, India, London and San Francisco within a single week. They explain that the main requirement for becoming an ambassador is curiosity and a willingness to share knowledge in an inclusive environment, not deep expertise in Codex. The video closes with an invitation for people anywhere to join the Codex community, making it a quick look at how OpenAI is building grassroots adoption around its coding agent.
📺 Source: OpenAI · Published October 09, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
