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Thibault Sottiaux

Thibault Sottiaux

Head of Codex, OpenAI

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Notable Quotes

"If we manage to sandbox it properly and make it safe for non-technical users, then suddenly you can bring the power of coding agents to billions of users."

Stories

Frontier AI labs move into application security, shaking up a $14 billion industry

New Capabilities

Leading Codex product development including Codex Security

For decades, finding security flaws in software has required expensive human experts or pattern-matching tools that miss complex bugs. In five months, all three frontier artificial intelligence labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) released autonomous agents that read code like a human researcher, discover vulnerabilities traditional scanners miss, and generate patches. On March 6, 2026, OpenAI launched Codex Security in research preview, an agent that scanned 1.2 million code commits in its first month of beta testing and discovered 14 previously unknown vulnerabilities serious enough to receive formal identifiers in OpenSSH, Chromium, and PHP.

Updated May 30