OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses the gathering on the AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi, India, February 19, 2026.
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OpenAI on Monday introduced it’s coming into into multiyear partnerships with 4 consulting corporations that can assist the corporate deploy its enterprise platform known as Frontier.
The artificial intelligence startup mentioned it has fashioned “Frontier Alliances” with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini and McKinsey & Co., in response to a launch. The firm declined to share the monetary particulars of the partnerships.
Lan Guan, the chief AI and information officer at Accenture, mentioned OpenAI’s Frontier Alliances serve for example of how product corporations, consulting corporations and technique corporations ought to come collectively to speed up AI deployment.
“This is the inflection moment,” Guan mentioned in an interview. “It’s our time to help enterprise clients to actually realize the value of AI.”
OpenAI is racing in opposition to rivals like Google and Anthropic to win customers and market share, and the corporate has made an aggressive push to court docket enterprise clients in latest months. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC in January that enterprises account for roughly 40% of OpenAI’s enterprise, although she expects that determine to achieve nearer to 50% by the top of the yr.
Frontier, which OpenAI unveiled earlier this month, acts as an intelligence layer that stitches collectively disparate techniques and information inside a corporation. It goals to make it simpler for corporations to handle, deploy and construct AI brokers, that are instruments that may independently full duties on behalf of a consumer.
OpenAI mentioned its consulting companions will assist its clients outline their technique and get brokers into actual manufacturing workflows extra rapidly.
“It pairs the foundation with deep on-the-ground implementation and expertise to help companies really make this happen,” Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief income officer, advised CNBC in an interview.
Dresser mentioned OpenAI determined to accomplice with consulting corporations as a result of they’ve current relationships with enterprises and deep information about how these companies function. She mentioned there’s additionally way more demand for AI than anybody firm might tackle by itself.
Fernando Alvarez, Capgemini’s chief technique and improvement officer, mentioned OpenAI is relying on its Frontier Alliances to assist roll out its expertise at scale.
“It’s not an easy task,” Alvarez advised CNBC in an interview. “If it was a walk in the park, OpenAI would have done it by themselves, so it’s recognition that it takes a village.”
The consulting corporations will work alongside OpenAI’s forward deployed engineers, who’ve deep technical experience and are embedded instantly inside totally different companies.
The corporations are additionally constructing groups and investing in “dedicated practice groups” that will likely be licensed on OpenAI expertise. They’ll be supported with street map perception, entry to technical sources, and OpenAI’s product and analysis groups, OpenAI mentioned.
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