Oracle Brings OpenAI Models, ChatGPT and Codex Into Its Enterprise Suite

ChatGPT as the front door to Oracle systems

The centerpiece is Oracle AI Workspace, which Oracle describes as a single user experience that brings OpenAI frontier models together with Oracle applications, enterprise data and cloud services. Through plugins in ChatGPT on Oracle AI Workspace, employees can access information, complete approved business workflows and take action alongside Oracle systems.

According to Oracle, the workspace is designed to connect Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle NetSuite, Oracle AI Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with other enterprise tools and data sources. Users can describe a business goal, and the plugins in ChatGPT will bring together the right Oracle tools and information to help accomplish it. Oracle says this happens while maintaining the governance, approvals and controls required for enterprise operations.

The two companies say they share an ambition to set the standard for the agent-ready enterprise, and that they are partnering across the full innovation cycle to transform Oracle's applications for agents.

Security testing and app building

Oracle AI Security Mesh is a managed service that uses OpenAI cyber models. Oracle says it helps customers find and fix vulnerabilities in their applications and infrastructure across OCI, other clouds and on-premises environments before attackers can exploit them. The service combines OpenAI frontier cyber models with Oracle's testing tools, independent validation, testing infrastructure and operational safeguards managed by Oracle. As a result, customers do not need to build and operate their own agentic defensive or offensive systems, according to the company.

Customers define where testing is authorized and control its scope, while Oracle manages the safeguards meant to reduce the risk of outages or business disruption during testing.

Oracle App Composer targets employees who want to turn ideas into enterprise applications for recurring business challenges without coding expertise. Users build applications with Codex, while Oracle manages deployment and operations on OCI. The tool connects applications to approved Oracle data and workflows and provides access to OCI services, including OCI Kubernetes Engine and Oracle Autonomous AI Database. It also applies enterprise identity, permissions, networking, audit and application life cycle controls.

App Composer also supports APEXlang, a new Oracle technology that, according to Oracle, gives customers the speed of generative development without producing opaque application code that is difficult to maintain.

A bundle for small businesses

The Oracle AI SMB Bundle is a new free-to-start packaged offering that provides $12,000 in Oracle cloud credits each year. Oracle says it gives small businesses AI tools to build products, run operations and scale. It includes ChatGPT Business for daily work, Oracle AI Workspace for accessing business applications and data through ChatGPT, Codex and Oracle App Composer for building apps, and OCI for deploying them. The bundle also contains NetSuite QuickStart, which provides a foundation for managing core operations, including invoicing and cash flow. Oracle notes that terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

What the companies say and what it means

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk said the new suite unites OpenAI's AI capabilities with Oracle applications, data and cloud infrastructure, "technology that businesses around the world rely on to run their most critical operations." Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, said the partnership helps bring AI to more companies "so teams can build software faster, strengthen security and take on more complex knowledge work."

For Oracle customers, the announcement points to AI being delivered inside the systems they already use, with ChatGPT as an interface to business applications and Codex as a way to build new ones. Oracle's release includes a disclaimer that it outlines general product direction and is not a commitment to deliver any functionality. The development, release, timing and pricing of the described features may change at Oracle's discretion.