IBM announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to enterprise customers through IBM’s global consulting business.

The deal, financial terms undisclosed, was disclosed less than a year after a similar alliance with Anthropic.

IBM and OpenAI will jointly market AI offerings and develop industry-specific solutions for financial services, government, telecommunications, and retail.

IBM will establish a dedicated OpenAI practice within IBM Consulting and train tens of thousands of consultants—primarily retraining existing employees—on OpenAI’s Codex, API, cybersecurity, and consultative solution credentials over the next several months.

A specialized group of ‘Forward Deployed Experts’ will be trained through OpenAI’s Partner Network. IBM will integrate OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5.

6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work, into IBM Consulting Advantage, its AI platform for consultants, to help clients deploy AI across core business operations.

The partnership is part of OpenAI’s broader push to expand enterprise business through consulting firms and technology partners, as competition among AI model developers shifts from model capability to winning corporate customers and large-scale deployments.

OpenAI has previously announced partnerships with Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services.

For IBM, the agreement expands its range of frontier AI partnerships as the company pursues a model-agnostic strategy combining its own Granite family of AI models with third-party offerings via the watsonx platform and global consulting business.

The partnership comes as IBM looks to accelerate AI business growth after lowering its 2026 revenue forecast last month following weaker-than-expected quarterly results.

CEO Arvind Krishna stated that AI adoption is complementing, not replacing, demand for IBM’s mainframe business.

In June, IBM and OpenAI partnered for the cybersecurity-focused OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program; the new deal expands that by integrating OpenAI’s AI models with IBM Autonomous Security, a multi-agent-powered cybersecurity service.