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Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

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OpenAI expanded its contract with Uber to deploy ChatGPT Work across Uber's entire 30,000-person global workforce.

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techcrunch.comOct 22, 2026By Lucas Ropek

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

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Uber and OpenAI announced an expansion of their partnership on Thursday, with the ride-share giant telling TechCrunch that its entire global workforce - some 30,000 people - will now be using ChatGPT Work. ChatGPT Work was introduced in July as an enterprise-focused AI agent that corporate teams could deploy for various workflows. Uber originally piloted ChatGPT Work with 1,000 employees earlier this year but has now scaled up its usage to the entire company. That earlier pilot was deployed to workers from across Uber's various departments, including finance, operations, and product. Indeed, a majority of the early adopters - some 80% - were non-engineers, Sumanth Sukumar, Uber's VP of engineering, told TechCrunch. "They used it for a wide range of tasks: analyzing complex data from our operations to identify trends and develop recommendations; localizing training materials for different markets and languages; and building personalized interactive dashboards to manage their daily work," he said. Yet while the ride-share giant is now going all-in on ChatGPT, it sounds not to have settled on exactly how employees will use it. "Our approach is to make powerful AI tools available across Uber while giving teams room to experiment," Sukumar said. "For example, earlier this year we paired 30 AI engineers with teams across Uber and gave them two weeks to automate key parts of their...

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