OpenAI deepens partnerships with consulting giants to push enterprise AI beyond pilot

Feb 23 (Reuters) - OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) is expanding its propulsion into the endeavor marketplace by teaming up with 4 of the world’s largest consulting firms, betting that a much hands-on attack volition ‌help firm clients determination beyond aviator projects to full-scale AI deployments.

The institution said connected Monday ‌it had launched the alleged “Frontier Alliance,” a programme built astir its caller Frontier level and anchored by BCG, McKinsey, Accenture and ​Capgemini. The inaugural pairs OpenAI’s forward-deployed engineers with consulting firms to assistance companies integrate AI agents into halfway concern processes specified arsenic bundle development, income and lawsuit support.

The determination follows months of Chief Executive Sam Altman emphasizing selling to endeavor clients arsenic a precedence for the AI lab. In December, OpenAI hired erstwhile Slack CEO ‌Denise Dresser arsenic main gross officer.

While ⁠OpenAI has antecedently worked with consulting firms to merchantability its technology, Dresser said the caller concern is designed to assistance companies embed AI into halfway workflows alternatively than ⁠run isolated experiments.

Enterprises “don't conscionable request caution. They really request a path, and they request assistance truthful that they tin turn and follow this technology,” Dresser said successful an interview.

Under the alliance, OpenAI’s engineers volition enactment alongside consulting teams ​to bid ​staff and enactment implementations. The Frontier level includes a “context ​layer” designed to link disparate firm information ‌and applications, a communal obstacle to AI adoption. Companies tin physique AI agents that stock skills and representation crossed workflows, portion managing them done an observability system. Products specified arsenic ChatGPT Enterprise are besides portion of the offering.

“Companies person realized that siloed AI deployments bash not present the worth and they don’t alteration their company,” Dresser said.

The confederation underscores the ChatGPT maker's evolving presumption that AI arsenic a “profound” technological displacement ‌requiring much than selling bundle licenses, Dresser said, arsenic enterprises ​rethink their products. Many businesses that person attempted to deploy AI ​at standard person told Reuters they brushwood ​real-world challenges that models unsocial bash not solve.

Still Dresser expects that companies moving ‌with consulting firms implicit clip “will past go self-sufficient ​on their ain and yet ​be capable to instrumentality their translation forward."

“We bash not privation to physique a exemplary wherever we are doing the work. We privation our customers to go self-sufficient,” she said.

In the endeavor race, ​OpenAI faces contention from rivals specified ‌as Anthropic and giants similar Google that are selling AI capabilities to enterprises. OpenAI said ​its attack allows companies to support existing systems portion gaining person probe collaboration.

(Reporting by ​Krystal Hu successful San Francisco; Editing by Stephen Coates)