Specialised engineers and consultants trained through OpenAI’s partner network will work directly with clients on solutions.
OpenAI – in its latest effort to garner enterprise support – has teamed up with IBM to provide organisations with its tools to scale AI deployment.
The deal will see the two companies create industry-specific, go-to-market initiatives targeted at financial services, government, telecommunications and retail sectors, and comes at a time when AI investments are surging multi-fold despite only a fraction of businesses seeing real returns.
“While enterprises are rapidly investing in AI, they are looking for practical ways to apply it across their core operations to deliver measurable business outcomes and create new commercial models,” said Andy Baldwin, the global senior vice-president at IBM Consulting.
“The challenge is not access to AI technologies – it’s integrating AI securely and at scale into complex enterprise environments and workflows.”
The partnership embeds OpenAI’s latest frontier models, including GPT-5.6 and products like Codex and ChatGPT Work, into IBM’s AI platform.
IBM said it will deploy units of specialised engineers and consultants trained through OpenAI’s partner network to work directly with clients to accelerate AI implementation across complex business workflows and highly regulated environments.
The technology giant is also launching a dedicated channel through which more of its consultants and engineers can be certified under the partner network.
The two also said they will expand their collaboration as part of OpenAI’s cybersecurity partnership programme Daybreak by combining the AI giant’s frontier capabilities with IBM’s multi-agent-powered service for delivering decision-making and intelligence.
With this, the collaborators aim to help clients manage both cyber and AI model risk, including application-layer vulnerabilities, governance gaps and operational risks that limits AI adoption, they said.
“The organisations pulling ahead with AI are the ones turning it into a trusted part of how their business operates,” said Denise Dresser, the chief revenue officer at OpenAI.
Earlier this year, IBM set aside more than $10bn for its lofty quantum plans that it hopes will deliver the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029.
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