HCLTech and OpenAI have inked a multi-year strategic collaboration to drive large-scale enterprise AI transformation. The partnership aims to enable HCLTech's clients to leverage OpenAI's AI products portfolio alongside HCLTech's foundational and applied AI offerings for rapid and scaled GenAI deployment.
Giancarlo "GC" Lionetti, chief commercial officer at OpenAI, expressed his confidence in the partnership, saying, "HCLTech's deep industry knowledge and AI engineering expertise sets the stage for scalable AI innovation. As one of the first system integration companies to integrate OpenAI to improve efficiency and enhance customer experiences, they're accelerating productivity and setting a new standard for how industries can transform using generative AI."
Modernisation
The partnership also entails HCLTech embedding OpenAI's models and solutions across its industry-focused offerings, capabilities, and proprietary platforms, including AI Force, AI Foundry, AI Engineering, and industry-specific AI accelerators.
The integration aims to modernise business processes, improve customer and employee experiences for clients, and unlock growth opportunities, covering the full AI lifecycle, from AI readiness assessments and integration to enterprise-scale adoption, governance, and change management.
HCLTech will also roll out ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI APIs internally to empower its employees with secure, enterprise-grade generative AI tools.
"We are honoured to work with OpenAI, the global leader in generative AI foundation models. This collaboration underscores our commitment to empowering Global 2000 enterprises with transformative AI solutions. It reaffirms HCLTech's robust engineering heritage and aligns with OpenAI's spirit of innovation. Together, we are driving a new era of AI-powered transformation across our offerings and operations at a global scale," Vijay Guntur, global chief technology officer (CTO) and head of Ecosystems at HCLTech, said.
