Orange Business Group has strengthened its partnership with OpenAI by announcing it will now deploy the AI organisation’s advanced open-weight reasoning models into its infrastructure.
The French operator stated OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b models will be integrated into its infrastructure, “making customers’ data even safer” and cater to calls for advanced sovereign AI solutions.
As an early access partner, Orange will become one of the first companies globally to deploy the new open models, implemented across a variety of environments.
These range from Orange’s large regional cloud data centres in France to small on-premises servers or edge sites.
The operator explained that by maintaining control over the deployment environment, it can host AI workloads locally across any of its 26-country footprint, while safeguarding sensitive data and complying with diverse and evolving national regulations across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Orange added its deep AI engineering team will work to customise and distil OpenAI models for specific tasks, effectively creating smaller sub models for particular use cases while ensuring protection of all sensitive data used.
The companies also pointed to a push around driving digital inclusion and innovation across Africa, using access to the advanced models to include several African languages and build on an initiative announced in November 2024.
Chief AI officer at Orange, Steve Jarrett, said the new strategy “drives new use cases to address sensitive enterprise needs, helps manage our networks and enables innovative customer care solutions including African regional languages and much more”.
Source: Mobile World Live
Image Credit: OpenAI
