OpenAI’s new AI consulting offering raises questions of trust, strategy

OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new company, the OpenAI Deployment Company, designed to help organizations build and deploy AI systems by embedding engineers specializing in frontier AI deployment, known as forward deployed engineers (FDEs), into their environments. It features backing from 19 consulting and financial companies, and will include resources from OpenAI’s acquisition of AI consulting and engineering firm Tomoro, also announced on Monday. Analysts and consultants said the move is in lin