Oracle plans AI Workspace inside ChatGPT
OpenAI and Oracle are widening their partnership to bring Oracle applications and data into ChatGPT, an attempt to make the chatbot a front end for enterprise finance, procurement and planning work.
OpenAI announced that Oracle is developing Oracle AI Workspace, a set of integrations meant to let employees complete approved business workflows from inside ChatGPT. Oracle will also launch several products built on OpenAI models.
The announcement builds on an existing commercial relationship that spans the OpenAI API, ChatGPT Work and Codex. As we reported earlier, Oracle has more than 95,000 active Codex users. It also reports 130,000 active ChatGPT users. According to OpenAI, Oracle's recruiting team now spends 15–20 minutes preparing market research that used to take two to four days.
In OpenAI's example, a new finance team member could use ChatGPT to look into costs, understand purchasing decisions and see what remains before month-end close, pulling data from finance, procurement and planning applications. The companies say access would follow each organization's existing permissions and approvals, with unified sign-in and simpler administration.
Oracle also announced three related offerings:
- Oracle AI Security Mesh uses OpenAI cyber models to find and fix vulnerabilities in applications and infrastructure. Oracle runs the testing infrastructure, and use is limited to each customer's authorized scope.
- Oracle AI SMB Bundle packages ChatGPT Business and Codex with Oracle applications and recurring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure credits.
- Oracle App Composer lets teams build apps with Codex and other AI tools, connect them to approved Oracle data, and deploy them on OCI.
Most of these are described as "in development" or "designed to." OpenAI gave no availability dates, pricing or financial terms.