Accounting giant, PWC, has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI that will allow PwC to upsell its services to those who want to use ChatGPT to optimize their workloads.
Richard Hasslacher, OpenAI’s global head of alliances and partnerships confirmed the partnership in an interview on Wednesday.
Previously, companies could only sign up for the enterprise plan by contacting a sales representative at OpenAI. The partnership is another option that will also allow PwC to promote its services to clients who wish to use ChatGPT to streamline their tasks.
This is a component of the alliance that PwC and OpenAI announced this week.
Newsng understands that it is a component of its long-term AI investment strategy to broaden its ecosystem of technology, further incorporate gen AI into its platform, and assist businesses in leveraging AI to generate faster outcomes.
In August 2023, OpenAI debuted ChatGPT’s enterprise tier as part of a major push to commercialise its generative AI technologies, building on the billions of dollars it has raised thus far.
Faster, limitless interactions and greater flexibility in creating personalised models for various use cases are features of the enterprise tier. It also includes additional tools and analytics.
OpenAI has been attempting to grow its enterprise clientele outside of Microsoft, its original sponsor.
Although the precise cost of the enterprise-level ChatGPT is not disclosed to the public, estimations indicate that large-scale deployments may incur significant expenses. This brings to light a major obstacle facing OpenAI: persuading companies to move from a narrow range of AI use cases to a broad range of strategic adoption.
“PWC is the first partner that we are leaning into in this way,” said Hasslacher. “PwC becomes our largest customer, but they’re also our first partner who’s going to be reselling ChatGPT enterprise.
Like any enterprise software, OpenAI will still need to persuade businesses to view its generative AI products as a significant investment in labour, business processes, and IT, rather than just for small-scale, intermittent use.
We earlier reported that Reddit and OpenAI have partnered to incorporate Reddit’s content into ChatGPT, a popular chatbot.
