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Virtualitics targets public sector customers with OpenAI partnership

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Virtualitics is the latest company to partner with a frontier AI firm to enhance its existing software suite.

Pasadena-based artificial intelligence solutions firm Virtualitics and frontier AI company OpenAI announced a memorandum of understanding Wednesday to jointly work together to improve mission outcomes for customers with complex, critical workloads — including those within the Defense Department and civilian federal agencies.

The collaboration integrates OpenAI’s frontier AI technology with Virtualitics’ agentic AI platform, Iris, which has several customers in defense and among Fortune 500 firms. Virtualitics Chief Product Officer Aakash Indurkhya said the aim is to pair OpenAI’s frontier AI technology with Virtualitics’ expertise in analytics and AI agent development to create more robust AI agents and enhanced scalability for customers in government and regulated industries.

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