Oracle announced an expanded OpenAI partnership on October 27 that would let employees use ChatGPT to work with business records and build applications with Codex. Alongside the software plans, Oracle is adding Google's AI chips to its cloud lineup, giving customers another option beyond Nvidia.
The announcements at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas cover two sides of the same business: the tools employees use and the computing power behind them. Several offerings are still being developed. Oracle also deepened its Nvidia partnership, announcing that Vera Rubin systems and Vera CPUs are now generally available on its cloud.
ChatGPT gets closer to the company's books
Oracle AI Workspace is being developed to bring applications, company data and cloud services into ChatGPT. The planned connections include Fusion Applications, NetSuite and Oracle AI Database, with employees' access governed by their organization's permissions and approvals.
In its announcement, OpenAI gave an example of a new finance employee investigating costs, checking purchasing decisions and finding out what still needs to be done before month-end close. The intended experience would pull information from finance, procurement and planning applications into one place.
Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and co-founder, said:
"More businesses are choosing OpenAI as we make it easier to put AI to work through the tools and systems they already use."
Oracle App Composer tackles a different task: making applications. Employees would use Codex and other AI tools to build software connected to approved company data and workflows. Oracle would handle deployment and operations on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI, along with identity, permissions and audit controls.
Security testing and a small-business bundle
The companies' collaboration also includes Oracle AI Security Mesh, a managed service designed to find and fix weaknesses in applications and infrastructure across OCI, other clouds and customers' own systems.
Customers would decide where testing is authorized and set its limits. Oracle says it would manage the testing infrastructure, validation and safeguards intended to reduce outages or disruption.
For smaller companies, Oracle announced a free-to-start AI SMB Bundle combining ChatGPT Business, Codex, App Composer, AI Workspace and NetSuite QuickStart. The package includes $12,000 in Oracle cloud credits each year, subject to terms, conditions and restrictions.
There is an existing purchasing route, too. U.S. Oracle customers can buy access to the OpenAI API, Codex and ChatGPT Work through Oracle Marketplace, using their normal purchasing processes and eligible Oracle Universal Credits.
Google joins the chip menu, Nvidia expands too
The separate Google agreement is scheduled to bring Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, to OCI in calendar 2027, with capacity increasing over several years. Oracle and Google describe it as the first time the chips will be offered on a hyperscale cloud platform outside Google.
TPUs are Google's custom AI accelerators, used to train models and run them after training. Oracle will provide the power, cooling and data-center networking for their deployment on its infrastructure.
Amin Vahdat, Google's senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said:
"The next generation of AI will require a diverse range of compute. TPUs give customers a powerful, purpose-built option for demanding training and inference workloads."
The Nvidia expansion runs alongside that plan. Oracle intends to scale its Vera Rubin NVL72 infrastructure to multiple gigawatts and introduce smaller HGX Rubin NVL8 configurations. Those expansions remain plans, separate from the newly announced general availability of Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs.
The CPU offering handles work such as executing tools, testing code and retrieving information between AI model calls. Oracle says customers can scale CPU and GPU resources independently to match those tasks.
Its OpenAI release does not give a firm launch date for AI Workspace or a full price list for the new software suite. The company's product disclaimer says development, release timing and pricing can change.