Oracle and OpenAI have widened their partnership beyond computing power into software. Announced at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas on 27 October 2026, the deal brings OpenAI's models, ChatGPT and Codex together with Oracle's business applications, data and cloud infrastructure, in a suite of four products.
“More businesses are choosing OpenAI as we make it easier to put AI to work through the tools and systems they already use”
Greg Brockman, president and co-founder, OpenAI, in the announcement · itbrief.co.uk ↗
The first, AI Workspace, lets employees state a goal in ChatGPT and have it pull the right Oracle tools and data. Plugins let it look things up, complete approved workflows and take actions across Oracle Fusion Applications, NetSuite, Oracle AI Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The second, AI Security Mesh, is a managed service that uses OpenAI's cyber models to find and fix vulnerabilities on OCI, other clouds and on-premises systems. It is paired with Oracle's testing tools and independent validation, and customers choose where testing is allowed.
App Composer is aimed at people who cannot code. They build apps with Codex, while Oracle deploys and runs them on OCI with its Kubernetes Engine and Autonomous AI Database. Identity, permissions, networking, audit and life-cycle controls apply to the generated apps, and the product supports APEXlang, a new Oracle technology meant to avoid opaque, hard-to-maintain generated code. The fourth product, the AI SMB Bundle, is free to start and carries $12,000 a year in Oracle cloud credits. It packages ChatGPT Business, AI Workspace, Codex, App Composer, OCI and a NetSuite QuickStart for invoicing and cash flow.
Both companies describe the aim as putting AI inside systems customers already use. OpenAI says the tie should help teams build software faster, tighten security and handle harder knowledge work, while Oracle says combining OpenAI's capabilities with its applications, data and cloud will serve the operations businesses depend on. Oracle talks of an agent-ready enterprise, with its applications opened to agents running inside ChatGPT, and both say governance requirements stay part of the Workspace flow.
About Oracle
Oracle is a US enterprise software and cloud company headquartered in Austin, Texas, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ORCL. Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates founded it on 16 June 1977 in Santa Clara, California, as Software Development Laboratories, and it took the Oracle name in 1995.
Oracle has been tied to OpenAI's infrastructure push before. In January 2025 it joined OpenAI, SoftBank and MGX in Stargate, a joint venture announced with President Trump to spend up to $500 billion on US AI infrastructure. In September 2025 Oracle and OpenAI signed a $300 billion contract for 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity over five years.
Until now the relationship centred on infrastructure. OpenAI is set to buy about $300 billion of Oracle capacity over five years, roughly 4.5 gigawatts from 2027, and Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank are also building Stargate data centres. Oracle's release gives no firm availability dates for the individual products and carries the usual caveat that features and timing may change.
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