TEANECK, N.J. — Teaneck-based technology giant Cognizant is committing more than 25,000 professionals to a new global initiative focused on helping businesses put OpenAI technology into practical use.

The company announced Thursday the formation of its OpenAI Frontier Capability Group, a dedicated organization that will help clients integrate OpenAI products, including ChatGPT and Codex, into software development, customer service and daily business operations.

Cognizant said the initiative builds on an internal training effort in which more than 21,000 employees have earned more than 40,000 OpenAI technology badges by completing specialized learning programs.

The company also plans to draw on its own experience deploying OpenAI technology. Its sales and customer success teams already use an OpenAI-powered solution to identify and pursue business opportunities, allowing Cognizant to test approaches internally before bringing them to clients.

“Over the last 50 years, every shift in enterprise technology has changed who builds the systems and how,” said Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S. “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 Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic said the partnership would help more businesses apply artificial intelligence to their operations and customer services.

The new group will initially focus on three areas: software engineering using Codex, modernizing older business applications and using AI agents in customer service and sales operations.

Cognizant said it has already deployed an OpenAI-powered enterprise assistant for a global biopharmaceutical company. The system combines search, content creation, translation and approvals and has handled more than 5 million conversations while reducing content creation time by 60 percent.

Cognizant, which is listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker CTSH, is one of a select group of Advanced partners in the OpenAI Partner Network. Its recent Codex hackathons in India and the Americas drew more than 12,000 participants.

The company said the new initiative is intended to help businesses move beyond experimenting with AI and begin incorporating the technology into their core operations.