HCLTech and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Drive Enterprise AI Adoption

Published: Jul 1, 2025 14:32

NEW YORK and NOIDA, India – HCL Technologies Limited (HCLTech) today, June 30, 2025, unveiled a multi-year strategic collaboration with OpenAI, a leading AI research and deployment company. This partnership positions HCLTech as one of the first strategic services partners to OpenAI, aiming to drive large-scale enterprise AI transformation.

The collaboration leverages HCLTech’s deep industry knowledge and AI Engineering expertise to enable its clients to integrate OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI products with HCLTech’s foundational and applied AI offerings. This synergy is designed to facilitate rapid and scaled Generative AI (GenAI) deployment across various industries.

As part of the alliance, HCLTech will embed OpenAI’s models and solutions directly into its proprietary platforms and industry-focused offerings, including AI Force, AI Foundry, AI Engineering, and specialized AI accelerators. This deep integration is expected to empower clients to modernize business processes, enhance customer and employee experiences, and unlock new growth opportunities. The partnership will cover the entire AI lifecycle, from initial AI readiness assessments and integration to enterprise-scale adoption, governance, and change management.

Internally, HCLTech plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI APIs to its employees, providing them with secure, enterprise-grade generative AI tools.

Vijay Guntur, Global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Head of Ecosystems at HCLTech, commented on the collaboration, stating, “We are honored to work with OpenAI, the global leader in generative AI foundation models. This collaboration underscores our commitment to empowering Global 2000 enterprises with transformative AI solutions. It reaffirms HCLTech’s robust engineering heritage and aligns with OpenAI’s spirit of innovation. Together, we are driving a new era of AI-powered transformation across our offerings and operations at a global scale.”

Giancarlo ‘GC’ Lionetti, Chief Commercial Officer at OpenAI, added, “HCLTech’s deep industry knowledge and AI engineering expertise sets the stage for scalable AI innovation. As one of the first system integration companies to integrate OpenAI to improve efficiency and enhance customer experiences, they’re accelerating productivity and setting a new standard for how industries can transform using generative AI.”

The announcement comes as HCLTech shares were trading at ₹1716.6, reflecting a marginal decrease of 0.7%.

source: Corporate Announcement