Oracle and OpenAI launch ChatGPT plugins for Oracle enterprise applications

Oracle announced on Oct. 27 at its Oracle AI World event in Las Vegas a collaboration with OpenAI that includes Oracle AI Workspace, which uses plugins in ChatGPT to let employees work with Oracle applications and data.1

Oracle said in a press release that the offerings combine OpenAI models, ChatGPT and Codex with Oracle's applications, data and cloud infrastructure so AI can work across customers' systems and operations.1 Oracle's blog post says the aim is to move businesses from AI that answers questions to AI that carries out work across their systems.2

According to Oracle, employees can use the plugins to access information, complete approved business workflows and take action alongside Oracle systems, and can describe a business goal for the plugins to assemble the right Oracle tools and information.1

Oracle said Oracle AI Workspace is designed to connect Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle NetSuite, Oracle AI Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and other enterprise tools and data sources, while maintaining governance, approvals and controls.1

Oracle's blog says Workspace uses unified sign in, consistent security and existing permissions; the sources do not say how approval rules are configured or which OpenAI models are used.21

Oracle AI Security Mesh, a managed service using OpenAI cyber models, lets customers define where testing is authorized and control its scope, Oracle said, while Oracle manages safeguards against outages or disruption during testing.1