Capgemini and OpenAI have entered into a strategic partnership with OpenAI to accelerate enterprise AI adoption through Frontier. Frontier is OpenAI’s platform for building, deploying and managing AI coworkers across organizations.
Capgemini, which is a founding member of the OpenAI Frontier Alliance, will be focusing on bridging the “AI opportunity gap” by tackling business, data, governance and systems integration challenges that often stall large-scale AI deployment. The aim is to help enterprises move from pilots to secure, scaled AI embedded into core workflows.
Frontier, which was unveiled by OpenAI earlier this month, acts as an intelligence layer that stitches together disparate systems and data within an organization, in an attempt to make it easier for companies to manage, deploy and build AI agents.
Fernando Alvarez, Capgemini’s chief strategy and development officer, said OpenAI is counting on its Frontier Alliances to help roll out its technology at scale. “It’s not an easy task,” Alvarez told 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.”
Alvarez also said “AI coworkers are not just chat interfaces. They are systems that can execute workflows, collaborate with human teams, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Aiman Ezzat, CEO of Capgemini, described the tie-up as long term. “By combining our domain expertise and assets with OpenAI’s cutting-edge models and platform, we move faster, build smarter, and create solutions that weren’t possible before,” he said.
Alvarez also said that this is not a “short cycle technology alliance,” but a collaboration aimed at redefining how enterprises design workflows, managing digital labor, and generating value from AI.
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In addition to Capgemini, OpenAI has entered multiyear partnerships with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, and McKinsey & Co. OpenAI said its consulting partners will help its customers define their strategy and get agents into real production workflows more quickly.
“It pairs the foundation with deep on-the-ground implementation and expertise to help companies really make this happen,” Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, told CNBC in an interview.
The consulting firms will work alongside OpenAI’s forward deployed engineers, who have deep technical expertise and are embedded directly within different businesses. The firms are also building teams and investing in “dedicated practice groups” that will be certified on OpenAI technology. They’ll be supported with road map insight, access to technical resources, and OpenAI’s product and research teams, according to OpenAI.