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IBM creates dedicated OpenAI consulting practice and integrates GPT-5.6 into its enterprise AI platform
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IBM will train tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies and integrate OpenAI's models into IBM Consulting Advantage as part of a broad enterprise partnership.
For teams building enterprise AI deployments, OpenAI's models will increasingly arrive wrapped in IBM's consulting services rather than sold directly. IBM's model-agnostic strategy now spans both OpenAI and Anthropic, positioning it as an integrator across frontier model providers. The deal also signals that competition among AI developers is shifting from model capability toward winning large corporate customers through systems integrators.
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IBM will establish a dedicated OpenAI practice within IBM Consulting and retrain tens of thousands of existing consultants on OpenAI's Codex, API, and cybersecurity credentials.
IBM will integrate OpenAI's GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting Advantage, its AI platform for consultants.
The partnership expands a prior June cybersecurity collaboration and follows a similar IBM alliance with Anthropic less than a year ago.
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