OpenAI has secured new customised artificial-intelligence contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Indian government and Southeast Asia’s Grab, expanding its reach beyond generic application-programming interfaces and into high-touch enterprise work, according to a report by The Information. Each customer is required to commit at least $10 million to gain access to OpenAI’s consulting-style package. The offering includes a team of roughly a dozen “Forward Deployed Engineers,” several of whom previously worked at Palantir, tasked with fine-tuning large-language models and building bespoke applications on clients’ proprietary data. The unit is overseen by researcher Aleksander Mądry. The move positions OpenAI to compete directly with Palantir, Accenture and other systems integrators for defence and national-scale contracts, while giving governments and large companies deeper access to its most advanced models. The company is said to envision winning contracts worth far more over time as it broadens its enterprise footprint.