OpenAI Takes a Page From Palantir, Doubles Down on Consulting Services

OpenAI is dramatically expanding into high-end enterprise AI consulting, offering bespoke GPT‑4o deployments starting at $10 million per client through teams of embedded “Forward‑Deployed Engineers” (FDEs) who tailor and integrate AI solutions deeply into client systems. This mirrors Palantir’s traditional playbook and positions OpenAI in direct competition with firms like Palantir and Accenture. Crucially from Snorkel AI’s perspective, OpenAI is reportedly considering outsourcing parts of its data annotation workflows — where experts evaluate and correct AI-generated outputs—to specialized partners like Snorkel AI and Surge AI. This could open a significant channel for Snorkel’s data-centric AI tooling to support enterprise-grade deployments.