Cognizant puts 25,000 staff behind OpenAI, days after a Gemini push
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Cognizant standing up a 25,000-person OpenAI group days after an 18,000-person Gemini push tells you where enterprise AI adoption is actually happening — inside SI-led delivery factories. If you’re a CIO, your near-term AI leverage may come less from tools and more from how you structure and govern these vendor-led programs.
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