Cognizant commits more than 25,000 professionals to OpenAI delivery as enterprises move frontier AI into production
Key Highlights
- ➤Cognizant (CTSH) commits more than 25,000 professionals to OpenAI delivery.
- ➤More than 21,000 associates earned 40,000+ OpenAI technology badges.
- ➤OpenAI-powered assistant handled over 5 million conversations, cutting content creation time 60%.
- ➤Cognizant’s group initially targets Codex software engineering, modernization and agentic customer operations.
Expert Statements
Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant
“Over the last 50 years, every shift in enterprise technology has changed who builds the systems and how. With Codex and ChatGPT, OpenAI is changing both at once. We are committing more than 25,000 of our people to bring that change inside our clients' businesses. We started with our own, and OpenAI is beginning to reshape how we sell.”
Dali Rajic, Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAI
“OpenAI is helping businesses fundamentally rethink how they operate, from the way they serve customers to how they get work done. By bringing together more than 25,000 professionals in a dedicated OpenAI practice and putting our technology to work across its own operations, Cognizant is helping more enterprises turn AI into meaningful business impact.”
Cognizant commits more than 25,000 professionals to OpenAI delivery as enterprises move frontier AI into production PR Newswire
TEANECK, N.J., Oct. 30, 2026 * Cognizant's new OpenAI Frontier Capability Group brings more than 25,000 professionals together in a global OpenAI delivery organization * Cognizant is scaling OpenAI across its own sales and customer success operations first, so clients can benefit from approaches tested at enterprise level TEANECK, N.J., Oct. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced the formation of its OpenAI Frontier Capability Group, bringing together more than 25,000 professionals aligned to delivering OpenAI products, including Codex and ChatGPT, for clients. The group is designed to help enterprises apply OpenAI models to how they write software, serve customers and run day-to-day operations.
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