OpenAI and Oracle announced an expanded collaboration to bring Oracle applications and data into ChatGPT and to power new Oracle products and services with OpenAI models. The companies say the partnership aims to help businesses run core operations, build improved applications, and bolster security using AI.
Existing commercial ties
The announcement builds on the organizations' existing commercial relationship across the OpenAI API, ChatGPT Work, and Codex. Oracle reported 130,000 active ChatGPT users and more than 95,000 active Codex users. Oracle's recruiting team, for example, uses ChatGPT Work for market research that previously took two to four days to compile and now takes 15–20 minutes to prepare.
An "agent-ready" enterprise vision
OpenAI and Oracle share a vision of an agent-ready enterprise where people and AI agents operate across business applications within a single connected environment. Their stated goals include making Oracle software easier to discover, use, and manage through simpler administration, unified sign-in, and access governed by each organization's permissions and approvals. This approach is intended to help companies scale AI across core operations and extract more value from the software they already use.
Oracle AI Workspace: integrating workflows into ChatGPT
Oracle is developing Oracle AI Workspace to realize this vision in ChatGPT by integrating Oracle applications and data. The goal is to let users describe the tasks they need to accomplish, find the right information, and complete approved business workflows in one place.
As an example, the companies suggest a new finance team member could use ChatGPT to analyze costs, review purchasing decisions, and identify outstanding tasks before month-end close. The envisioned experience would bring together information from finance, procurement, and planning applications, enabling more employees to use Oracle software within their organization's permissions and approvals.
New and updated Oracle offerings built with OpenAI models
Alongside Oracle AI Workspace, Oracle announced updates and new offerings that leverage OpenAI models and tools:
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Oracle AI Security Mesh: designed to help customers find and remediate vulnerabilities in applications and infrastructure using OpenAI cyber models. Oracle manages the testing infrastructure to help ensure these capabilities are used safely and within authorized scope.
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Oracle AI SMB Bundle: combines ChatGPT Business and Codex with Oracle applications and recurring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure credits to help small businesses build products and manage operations.
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Oracle App Composer: intended to help teams build apps with Codex and other AI tools, connect them to approved Oracle data and workflows, and share them across their organization. Oracle manages deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with built-in company permissions and access controls.
Purchasing through Oracle Marketplace
Oracle customers in the United States can purchase access to the OpenAI API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work through Oracle Marketplace, using existing procurement processes and eligible Oracle Universal Credits.
Why this matters
The integrations and product announcements are intended to simplify enterprise AI adoption within business applications, increase usability and security, and enable organizations to gain more value from their existing Oracle software. Further technical and availability details are provided in OpenAI's and Oracle's announcements.
