UAE AI Consultancy Nextgen Named an OpenAI Select Partner

The appointment adds another UAE company to the small group of firms OpenAI relies on to turn its models into working systems inside large organisations. For the country's government agencies and big companies, that kind of integration work, not access to the models, is often the harder part of getting a return on AI spending. Nextgen said its engineers work inside clients' existing systems and infrastructure to build and deploy solutions, and train internal teams to run and extend them.

"Bringing OpenAI's frontier models together with our strategy and implementation expertise, we help governments and enterprises embed AI into how they operate and turn their investment into real returns, from higher productivity to sustainable growth," the company said in a statement.

Nextgen said it has more than 135 specialists across five offices, works with more than 50 enterprise clients and has delivered more than 200 AI use cases. Its clients span financial services, fintech and payments, real estate, hospitality, education, healthcare, technology and media.

The company said it would remain technology-independent and pick models and platforms to suit each client rather than build around a single provider. It presented the OpenAI status as an addition to that range. It also said the partnership would support secure, scalable and sovereign AI deployments in line with national priorities, though it did not name any clients or projects.

OpenAI launched its Partner Network in June 2026 with Select, Advanced and Elite tiers and has committed $150 million to the programme, according to MENA Startup Digest, which reported that only a few dozen Select Partners had been appointed worldwide. Abu Dhabi enterprise AI company EMB Global was among the first.

Nextgen did not say what financial terms, if any, come with the status, or whether it plans to move into OpenAI's higher partner tiers.