PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user

PwC landed a deal Wednesday with OpenAI to become the artificial intelligence company's first resale partner and largest enterprise user.

The Big Four accounting firm said its U.S. and U.K. firms had signed an agreement with the Microsoft-backed company to offer ChatGPT Enterprise, the business-focused version of its generative AI chatbot, to employees and clients.

The agreement will "expand our technology ecosystem, bring GenAI deeper into our enterprise, and enable us to scale AI capabilities across businesses to help drive accelerated impact for clients," PwC said in a blogpost Wednesday.

PwC said the deal will see its U.S. and U.K. employees and clients gain access to the latest tools from OpenAI, including its recently announced ChatGPT-4o model and new capabilities focused on voice and image.

"By being on the forefront of OpenAI's models and as the first company to announce integration into its practice, we are uniquely positioned to help clients leverage ChatGPT Enterprise for better and faster ways of working," PwC said in its post.

PwC will hand ChatGPT Enterprise licenses to over 100,000 employees — 75,000 in the U.S. and 26,000 in the U.K. — according to Wall Street Journal, which earlier reported on the deal. PwC did not specify the number of workers that would use ChatGPT Enterprise.

"By embracing ChatGPT Enterprise across our workforce, we will bring our first-hand experience of our AI transformation to clients, complementing our audit, tax and consulting services with a broad array of business and industry solutions," the company said.

PwC didn't disclose the financial terms of the deal.

It marks the first time OpenAI has agreed a resale model of selling its popular AI products.

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