OpenAI’s New $4B Consulting Venture Lands Squarely in HR Territory

https://hrexecutive.com/openais-new-4b-consulting-venture-lands-squarely-in-hr-territory/
TALENT OPERATIONS
Issue #502
24 May 2026
The news that both OpenAI and Anthropic are launching AI deployment businesses tells me that the gap between rhetoric vs reality of AI at enterprise scale much wider than we might have initially thought. Individual AI-enablement creates systems challenges as surges in output cannot be absorbed by pre-AI processes. HR Executive makes the important point for us: these new mega companies are going to do the work that internal HR should’ve been doing. The destination for all this AI-enablement is not just great output but also greater organisational intelligence. Joris Luijke with an intriguing addendum to the conversation.