Research AI Minute Newsroom 2026-08-14

OpenAI opened its own enterprise records: agents now write two thirds of what companies generate

A paper posted to arXiv on 12 August by OpenAI researchers with academics from Berkeley and Wharton analyses ChatGPT Enterprise account records through March 2026 — over 1,500 organisations and more than 17 million messages at the six-month adoption mark. Output tokens across the sample rose sevenfold between June 2025 and March 2026. As of June, Codex accounted for 64% of the combined Codex and ChatGPT output tokens among enterprise customers. The widest gap is between firms: the top 10% by usage each month — the authors call them frontier firms — produce 8.3 times as many output tokens per active user as a typical firm. Adoption skews to large listed US companies with heavy R&D spending, and usage intensity is highest among early-career workers.

Why it mattersThis is a company measuring its own product, and the framing should be read with that in mind. Two findings resist spin, though. The 8.3× gap says the hard part is no longer getting access — it is knowing what to do with it, and that difference between firms is widening, not closing. And a majority of enterprise output coming from a coding agent rather than a chat window means the work has shifted from asking to delegating. That changes what a junior job consists of well before it changes how many junior jobs there are.

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OpenAI opened its own enterprise records: agents now write two thirds of what companies generate

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