IBM Will Retrain Tens of Thousands of Consultants on OpenAI's Stack — Less Than a Year After Its Anthropic Alliance

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IBM announced an enterprise partnership with OpenAI on August 13, committing to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants — primarily existing employees — on Codex, the API, and cybersecurity offerings over the next several months, per IBM Consulting managing partner Mike Healy. GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work get folded into IBM Consulting Advantage, with joint solutions targeted at financial services, government, telecom, and retail. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal lands under a year after IBM struck a similar alliance with Anthropic — the systems integrators are hedging across labs rather than picking one.