IBM will embed OpenAI frontier models and products such as Codex and ChatGPT embedded into IBM’s AI consulting services platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, as well as expanding the companies’ existing collaboration in the cybersecurity realm, they announced Thursday.

Joint initiatives will include the creation of industry-specific products for financial services, government, telecommunications, and retail, as well as serving key enterprise domains such as finance, procurement, customer operations, and HR.

IBM will join the OpenAI Partner Network and engage forward-deployed engineers and consultants trained through the network to help clients accelerate their AI implementations. It will also create a dedicated OpenAI practice, certifying thousands of consultants and engineers via the Partner Network, it said.