Anthropic and IBM Announce Strategic Collaboration

IBM, a leading tech company, has joined forces with AI research firm Anthropic to enhance its software solutions with AI capabilities.

Headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM announced on Tuesday plans to integrate Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models into various software applications. The first application to feature Claude will be IBM’s integrated development environment, currently available to a limited group of users.

Furthermore, IBM disclosed a partnership with Anthropic to create a guide designed to assist enterprises in building, deploying, and managing robust AI agents.

Details of the agreement remain confidential. TechCrunch has reached out to IBM for more insight into the future of this collaboration.

Since the introduction of Claude Enterprise in September 2024, Anthropic has been making substantial inroads into the enterprise sector.

The company recently announced a partnership with consulting leader Deloitte to roll out Claude to its nearly 500,000 global employees on Monday, marking Anthropic’s most extensive enterprise deployment to date.

A July study by Menlo Ventures indicated that enterprises prefer Claude models over alternative AI frameworks, including those from OpenAI, highlighting a decline in the use of OpenAI models among enterprises since 2023.