Oracle announced a $1B, four-year commitment to its partner ecosystem at AI World in Las Vegas, covering training, test and demo environments, cloud migration funding and Marketplace sales. It also changed Marketplace rules. The pledge comes as Oracle cuts costs to fund its AI data centres.

Oracle will spend $1B over the next four years on the companies that build, sell and install its software, the company said on Thursday. It made the pledge at its AI World conference in Las Vegas. The aim is to help partners cash in on demand for AI.

The money will go into Oracle’s partner programme. It covers training and certification, test and demo setups, funding to move customers onto Oracle’s cloud, and help selling through Oracle Marketplace, its online store for business software.

Partners include consulting firms, software makers, cloud providers and resellers. They build their own apps and AI agents on Oracle’s databases and cloud, or help customers set up and run Oracle software.…