Cognizant forms 25,000-person OpenAI delivery group — ETIH EdTech News - EdTech Innovation Hub
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Cognizant’s OpenAI delivery group brings together more than 25,000 professionals to help businesses deploy AI across software development and daily operations. Illustrative image: supplied
Cognizant has formed an OpenAI Frontier Capability Group bringing together more than 25,000 professionals to build and support systems using products including ChatGPT and Codex for enterprise clients.
The group will initially concentrate on software engineering, updating older business applications and introducing AI agents into sales, service and support. AI agents can use tools and carry out tasks across connected systems.
The initiative draws on a wider training effort at Cognizant, where more than 21,000 employees have earned over 40,000 OpenAI badges for completing learning tracks on OpenAI technologies.
Cognizant is organizing its OpenAI expertise into a global delivery group responsible for helping businesses put the technology into operation.
The work is expected to draw on its Frontier workforce model, which develops Frontier Certified Engineers and Frontier Business Operators with credentials awarded directly by advanced AI model providers.
These roles combine technical skills with an understanding of how businesses operate. Engineers help redesign processes around AI, while business operators manage the resulting work across people, AI agents and automation.
Cognizant’s SkillSpring training platform supports the development of these roles through learning paths covering AI fluency, process design, data interpretation and operational leadership.
The company has also used practical events to develop experience with OpenAI’s coding tools. Its Codex hackathons in India and the Americas brought together more than 12,000 participants.
Codex will support the group’s…
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