Cognizant announced a strategic partnership with Uniphore focused on the joint development of industry-specific AI solutions that combine small language models, AI agents and deep industry expertise. The collaboration aims to help enterprises deploy targeted, governable AI capabilities aligned to real business workflows and designed to help enterprises turn AI into a durable part of how their businesses run.
The partnership uses Uniphores Business AI Cloud - designed to unify enterprise data, knowledge, models and AI agents with built-in security and governance - as the foundation for building and fine-tuning small language models SLMs, while Cognizant leads solution development, deployment and client delivery. Together, the companies aim to help enterprises codify institutional knowledge and operational context, and apply AI in ways that align with regulatory, operational and business requirements.
As organizations look to scale AI across their operations, many find that not every use case requires large, general-purpose models. Instead, domain-specific approaches built around smaller, finely tuned models and purpose-built agents can deliver greater precision, control and efficiency, particularly in highly regulated industries.
