UiPath & OpenAI open acceleration aperture for agentic automation
UiPath used its annual user/practitioner and partner/customer symposium this month to detail a new union with OpenAI.
The collaboration is designed to build a ChatGPT connector integrating OpenAI frontier models with enterprise customer workflows, powered by UiPath enterprise orchestration.
As an aide mémoire, frontier models can be defined as large-scale AI systems with billions (sometimes trillions) of paarmeters and are known and characterised by their broad multimodal abilities, so that they can work across tasks spanning the processing text, but also images, audio and video with advanced reasoning.
Both companies say that this joint work will help accelerate ROI in agentic AI efforts.
UiPath’s agentic automation capabilities plus OpenAI models and APIs are said to simplify AI agent development and deployment, allowing users to focus on business goals .
It’s all about allowing developers (and, increasingly, less technical citizen developers) to build without having to manage the complexities of the underlying infrastructure. The work here should also enable process owners to build trust in their AI agents.
UiPath Agent Builder
OpenAI models already power UiPath agents, including the latest update of GPT-5 available in UiPath Agent Builder.
“Together, UiPath and OpenAI are creating a benchmark for using computer-use models in agentic automation. This new benchmark makes it easy to evaluate and compare the performance of different AI models in interacting with computer systems. It enables granular testing of agent capabilities and provides a flexible, extensible framework – created for practical enterprise scenarios – that can be expanded with new scenarios as those agents evolve,” note the organisations, in a technical statement.
UiPath Maestro will orchestrate UiPath, OpenAI and other third-party AI agents in business processes and unlock the potential of Large Action Models (LAMs) for enterprise. Process owners can now build, manage and optimise their business process using UiPath Maestro’s “so-called “single pane of glass and still use the right agents for the task, accelerating their agentic automation.
“Our platform helps enterprises at every step of their agentic transformation,” said Graham Sheldon, chief product officer, UiPath. “Whether identifying critical and repetitive processes or building AI agents and orchestrating workflows, we’re focused on enabling our customers to realize impact and ROI from their Agentic AI efforts. ChatGPT’s popularity and industry-leading models, together with the richness of our platform, makes it a natural fit for the many enterprise customers we share.”
UiPath says that will empower ChatGPT users with automation capabilities through an MCP integration.
Accelerated agentic automation
Users can see available unattended automations, API workflows, autonomous agents and Maestro workflows directly within ChatGPT Enterprise. As more organisations bring ChatGPT into their environments, UiPath can help accelerate AI automation efforts when paired with enterprise-grade agentic automation and orchestration.
“We’re moving fast on computer-use agents for enterprises and evaluations are how we measure progress and set higher standards,” said Giancarlo “GC” Lionetti, chief commercial officer at OpenAI.
Lionetti insists that working with UiPath lets his firm deliver enterprise-grade evaluations and push the industry forward.
