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OpenAI spins up standalone consulting business

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The model builder acquired applied AI engineering firm Tomoro to help staff the $4 billion venture.

Published May 12, 2026

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  • OpenAI launched a standalone consulting business to provide organizations with AI adoption assistance, the model builder said in a Monday announcement. The venture was seeded with $4 billion from OpenAI and 19 additional investors led by TPG and co-partners Advent, Bain Capital and Brookfield.
  • The OpenAI Deployment Company will use the funding to send teams of forward-deployed engineers into the field and deepen its bench of AI talent via acquisitions, OpenAI said. The launch was accompanied by the acquisition of AI consulting firm Tomoro and its roughly 150 AI engineers and deployment specialists.
  • “AI is becoming capable of doing increasingly meaningful work,” OpenAI CRO Denise Dresser said in the announcement. “The challenge now is helping companies integrate these systems into the infrastructure...

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