Anthropic and IBM announce strategic partnership | TechCrunch

Tech behemoth IBM is teaming up with AI research lab Anthropic to bring AI into its software.

Armonk, New York-based IBM announced it will be adding Anthropic’s Claude large language model family into some of its software products on Tuesday. The first product to tap Claude will be IBM’s integrated development environment, which is already available to a select group of customers.  

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

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

Anthropic has been making a big push into the enterprise sector since it released Claude Enterprise in September 2024.  

The company also announced a deal to bring Claude to consulting giant Deloitte’s nearly 500,000-person global workforce on Monday. Anthropic said this would be the largest enterprise rollout for the company yet.  

A July study conducted by Menlo Ventures found that enterprises prefer Claude models over any other AI models, including OpenAI’s. The study found that usage of OpenAI’s models by enterprises has been declining since 2023.