Cognizant Forms OpenAI Group With More Than 25,000 Professionals

Oct 30, 2026
Cognizant forms a delivery group with more than 25,000 professionals focused on deploying OpenAI products for enterprise clients. Its initial work covers software engineering, application modernization and customer operations.

Cognizant announced in a press release a new delivery group with more than 25,000 professionals focused on deploying products from OpenAI, including Codex and ChatGPT, for enterprise clients. More than 21,000 Cognizant employees have earned over 40,000 badges by completing training on OpenAI technologies.

The OpenAI Frontier Capability Group will initially focus on software engineering with Codex, application modernization and customer operations that use AI agents. Cognizant will use OpenAI models to analyze legacy mainframe code and generate cloud code, with engineers reviewing consequential decisions.

Cognizant said it already uses OpenAI models in its sales and customer success operations. The company also jointly built an enterprise assistant for a global biopharmaceutical client that has handled more than 5 million conversations and reduced content creation time by 60%.

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