Infosys ties up with OpenAI to scale enterprise AI adoption

Indian IT services company Infosys announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, as India’s IT services majors deepen partnerships with global AI firms to stay relevant in a rapidly shifting market.

The partnership will integrate OpenAI’s models, including Codex, with Infosys Topaz to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment across software engineering, legacy modernisation, and DevOps.

Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said generative and agentic AI will fundamentally reshape enterprise operations. “Our collaboration with OpenAI establishes an operating model to unlock AI value at scale—uniting technology, talent, and transformation playbooks so clients can move decisively from pilots to performance,” he said.

OpenAI is already partnering with consulting and IT firms, including Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant, and Accenture to scale deployments of Codex and other AI tools across enterprises. TCS has partnered with OpenAI and the Tata Group to build large-scale AI infrastructure and expand enterprise use of generative AI. Meanwhile, Infosys itself had earlier announced a collaboration with Anthropic to deploy enterprise AI agents across sectors.

Peers such as Wipro and HCLTech have also been building partnerships with hyperscalers and AI firms, including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, to strengthen their AI service offerings, as competition intensifies in the generative AI-led transformation market.

Against this backdrop, the Infosys–OpenAI collaboration underscores a broader shift in the IT services model—from labour-led outsourcing to AI-driven, platform-enabled delivery. 

The focus is increasingly on embedding AI into core engineering workflows, automating code generation and review, and improving productivity in large transformation deals. “Codex is becoming a powerful workspace for managing agents across software development and business workflows,” said Denise Dresser, noting that partnerships with firms like Infosys are key to moving enterprises from early experimentation to repeatable deployment.

The announcement comes just days before Infosys is slated to report its fourth-quarter and full-year FY26 results, at a time when the sector is under pressure to demonstrate tangible returns from AI investments. Analysts expect Indian IT firms to post modest growth amid macroeconomic uncertainty, even as AI-led deals and productivity gains remain a key focus area for investors.