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ChatGPT makerOpenAIis expanding its partnerships with global consulting and IT services companies. With these new collaborations, the Sam Altman-led company aims to accelerate enterprise adoption of its Codex AI tools amid growing competition in the AI market.According to a Reuters report, OpenAI said it is working with major systems integrators, including Accenture, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), to help these companies deploy Codex across their software development operations. The move reflects OpenAI’s focus on strengthening its presence in enterprise environments by integrating its AI tools into existing workflows and systems, Reuters reported.As part of this effort, OpenAI is also launching Codex Labs, an initiative that will place its specialists directly within customer organisations, Reuters added. These teams will assist companies in implementing Codex and adapting it to their internal processes.Codex is designed to support different stages of the software development lifecycle, including writing, reviewing, and reasoning about code. OpenAI said the tool has seen increased adoption in recent weeks, with more than 4 million developers now using it, compared to around 3 million earlier this month.The expansion comes at a time when OpenAI is facing competition from companies such as Anthropic, whose Claude models are being used by enterprises for coding and reasoning tasks. Major tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, are also investing in AI tools tailored for business use.OpenAI has been adjusting its strategy in recent months, scaling back or discontinuing some smaller experimental projects, including Sora, to focus more on core offerings such as Codex and ChatGPT.Cognizant is integrating Codex into its engineering workflows across its Software Engineering Group. With this move, the company aims to make it a standard capability in its software development and delivery.Commenting on the partnership, Rajesh Varrier, President of Global Operations and Chairman & Managing Director at Cognizant India, said, “We are embedding Codex as a partner in how our engineers work – handling code generation, refactoring, testing and documentation – so our teams can apply human judgment where it is needed most. OpenAI brings frontier intelligence. Cognizant brings enterprise scale, deep industry expertise and the governance rigor that industry requires.”
