Anthropic and IBM announce strategic partnership

Technology giant IBM is teaming up with artificial intelligence research lab Anthropic to bring AI into its software.

Armonk, New York-based IBM announced Anthropic’s Claude language family will be added to some of its software products on Tuesday. The first product that Claude will benefit from will be IBM’s integrated development environment, which is already available to a select group of customers.

IBM also announced that it has created a guide in partnership with Anthropic on how organizations can build, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade AI agents.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TechCrunch has reached out to IBM for more information about the future of the partnership.

Anthropic has made a huge push in the enterprise sector since its release Claude Enterprise In September 2024.

The company also announced a deal to bring it on board Cloud consulting giant Deloitte Nearly 500,000 people were cut from the global workforce on Monday. Anthropic said this will be the company’s largest institutional offering to date.

A July study by Menlo Ventures found that Companies prefer CLOUD models On any other AI models, including OpenAI. The study found that the use of OpenAI models by companies has been declining since 2023.