OpenAI's Denise Dresser: Enterprise customers will be 50% of business by year-end

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  April 23, 2026 at 19:49  |  4:02  |  CNBC

Summary

Denise Dresser, OpenAI's chief revenue officer, discusses the new GPT-5.5 model and its enhanced capabilities for enterprise agents. She highlights that enterprise customers are expected to make up 50% of OpenAI's business by year-end. The conversation covers AI's role in unlocking value across enterprise software systems and touches on competition with Anthropic's Mythos.

  • OpenAI released GPT-5.5, described as its most intelligent and intuitive model, with improvements in agentic coding and multi-step reasoning.
  • Denise Dresser states that enterprise customers will constitute 50% of OpenAI's business by the end of the year.
  • OpenAI's Codex now has 4 million weekly active users, showing adoption of agentic coding tools.
  • Dresser argues AI can unlock intelligence across existing enterprise systems like Salesforce, Slack, Workday, and Snowflake.
  • She addresses competition from Anthropic's Mythos model, emphasizing OpenAI's long-standing preparedness framework.
  • The interview does not provide any specific stock or trade recommendations.
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