PwC said the deal will see its employees and clients in the US and UK gain access to the latest tools from OpenAI.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers struck a deal Wednesday with OpenAI to become the AI company's first reseller partner and largest enterprise user.
The Big Four accounting firm said that its American and British companies had signed an agreement with… MicrosoftPowered company to deliver ChatGPT Enterprise, the business-focused version of our AI-generated chatbot, to employees and customers.
The agreement “will expand our technology ecosystem, deepen GenAI across our enterprise, and enable us to scale AI capabilities across companies to help deliver accelerated customer impact,” PwC said in a blog post on Wednesday.
PwC said the deal will see its employees and clients in the US and UK gain access to the latest tools from OpenAI, including the recently announced ChatGPT-4o model and new audio and video-focused capabilities.
“By being at the forefront of OpenAI models and being the first company to announce the integration into its practices, we are uniquely positioned to help clients leverage ChatGPT Enterprise for better, faster ways of working,” PwC said in its post.
PwC will hand over ChatGPT Enterprise licenses to more than 100,000 employees — 75,000 in the US and 26,000 in the UK — according to the Wall Street Journal, which previously reported on the deal. PwC has not specified how many workers will use ChatGPT Enterprise.
“By embracing ChatGPT Enterprise across our workforce, we will bring our first-hand AI transformation expertise to clients, complementing our audit, tax and consulting services with a broad range of business and industry solutions,” the company said.
PricewaterhouseCoopers did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
Make money from artificial intelligence
This is the first time that OpenAI has approved a resale model for selling popular AI products.
The company is said to be losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to the huge computing costs associated with generative AI.
They have increasingly turned to premium subscriptions and enterprise sales as a way to make money from AI.
In February 2023, OpenAI launched a paid version of ChatGPT, called ChatGPT Plus. Later that year, in August, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise, a highly secure version of its chatbot aimed at businesses.
The deal announced Wednesday also forms part of PwC's broader push into artificial intelligence.
In April last year, PwC announced that it intended to commit $1 billion in investment over three years to expand and scale its AI capabilities.
PwC says it is developing custom GPTs to help its workforce review tax returns, create responses to proposals, and create reports and dashboards.
PwC says it is also helping its clients accelerate the implementation of generative AI, having identified more than 3,000 internal use cases spanning different industries.
