Cognizant has 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.
Cognizant has formed its OpenAI Frontier Capability Group with more than 25,000 professionals delivering OpenAI products, including Codex and ChatGPT.
More than 21,000 Cognizant associates have earned 40,000+ OpenAI badges for completing learning tracks on OpenAI technologies.
Cognizant is one of a select group of Advanced partners in the OpenAI Partner Network.
The group will initially focus on AI-native software engineering with Codex, application modernization and agentic customer operations.
In application modernization, Cognizant Application Modernizer, powered by OpenAI models, spans reverse engineering legacy mainframe code to generating cloud-native code.
At a global biopharmaceutical company, Cognizant co-engineered an OpenAI-powered enterprise assistant that has handled more than 5 million conversations and cut content creation time by 60%.
Cognizant's Codex hackathons in India and the Americas brought together more than 12,000 participants.
"Over the last 50 years, every shift in enterprise technology has changed who builds the systems and how," said Ravi Kumar S, CEO of Cognizant. "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."
"OpenAI is helping businesses fundamentally rethink how they operate, from the way they serve customers to how they get work done," said Dali Rajic, Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAI. "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 often tests new approaches in its own business before taking them to clients. Its sales and customer success teams already use a solution built on OpenAI models to find and pursue new opportunities, so the group's work can start from methods tested at scale inside a global enterprise.
The group will initially focus on three areas: AI-native software engineering with Codex, application modernization and agentic customer operations. Codex anchors the first and is designed to support engineers as they write, test and ship new code. In application modernization, the group will use Cognizant Application Modernizer across the full lifecycle, from reverse engineering legacy mainframe code to generating cloud-native code, with engineers reviewing every consequential decision and backed by Cognizant's experience modernizing mainframe systems for more than 500 clients.
About Cognizant
Cognizant is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world.
