IBM and OpenAI Team Up to Scale AI Adoption Across Industries With Enhanced Security

IBM, OpenAI join forces to scale AI adoption, boost security

Specialised engineers and consultants trained through OpenAI's partner network will work directly with clients to help scale 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 and turn better profits. 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 turning 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 designed to deliver decision-making and intelligence. With this, the collaborators hope 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 hopes to deliver the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. Don't miss out on the knowledge you need to succeed. Sign up for the Daily Brief, Silicon Republic's digest of need-to-know sci-tech news.

IBM Works With OpenAI to Provide AI Consulting

International Business Machines is working with OpenAI to help companies deploy AI across their businesses while strengthening cybersecurity. IBM said Thursday that its new partnership embeds frontier models including GPT-5.6 and products such as Codex and ChatGPTWork in IBM's AI consulting platform. The consulting platform combines AI agents, industry assets and cybersecurity capabilities to help businesses securely deploy AI at scale. IBM will bring engineers and consultants trained through OpenAI to work with clients on implementing the technology. IBM also will launch a dedicated program to train and certify consultants and engineers through OpenAI's program. The consultancy is geared toward helping companies in the financial services, government, telecommunications and retail sectors. IBM has said that one of the biggest challenges among its customers is organizing and securing the billions of new AI apps and agents as the companies start to employ more AI. Customers are looking for expertise that can help them keep track of their operating systems, IBM executives have said.