AI analysis lab Anthropic continues to land sizable enterprise offers. Its newest entails bringing its giant language fashions to a legacy German insurance coverage large.
Anthropic on Friday introduced a take care of Munich, Germany-based international insurance coverage conglomerate Allianz to deliver “accountable AI” to the insurance coverage business. The events declined to share monetary phrases of the deal.
The partnership is made up of three particular initiatives.
The primary is making Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding device, out there to all of Allianz’s staff. Anthropic and Allianz may also construct customized AI brokers for Allianz staff that may execute multi-step workflows with a human within the loop.
This partnership additionally contains an AI system that logs all AI interactions to maintain the AI clear and be sure that data is available for regulatory or different wants.
“With this partnership, Allianz is taking a decisive step to handle essential AI challenges in insurance coverage,” Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE, mentioned within the firm’s press launch. “Anthropic’s deal with security and transparency enhances our sturdy dedication to buyer excellence and stakeholder belief. Collectively, we’re constructing options that prioritize what issues most to our prospects whereas setting new requirements for innovation and resilience.”
That is simply the most recent enterprise deal Anthropic has landed in latest months.
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In December, the corporate inked a $200 million deal to deliver its AI fashions to knowledge cloud firm Snowflake and its prospects. Shortly after, it introduced a multi-year partnership with the consulting agency Accenture.
In October, it signed a take care of consulting agency Deloitte to deliver its Claude chatbot to the agency’s 500,000 staff. That very same month, Anthropic signed a deal with IBM to deliver its AI fashions into the latter’s merchandise.
The race for AI enterprise dominance is clearly on, and Anthropic seems to be profitable — thus far a minimum of.
Anthropic holds 40% of enterprise AI market share, in accordance with a December survey from Anthropic investor Menlo Ventures, and 54% of the market share for AI coding. Anthropic market share elevated all through final yr. When Menlo’s unique survey came out in July, the corporate held a 32% market share for total enterprise LLM use.
Google launched its devoted enterprise AI product, Gemini Enterprise, in October. On the time, the corporate touted that the product suite already had prospects together with fintech Klarna, design software program firm Figma and cruise line operator Virgin Voyages, amongst others.
OpenAI launched its enterprise model of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprise, in 2023. Not too long ago, the corporate reportedly expressed deep concern in an inner memo that Google Gemini’s success was beginning to encroach on its enterprise. Shortly after, the corporate launched a report that mentioned enterprise use of ChatGPT had surged 8x previously yr.
A latest TechCrunch investor survey discovered that enterprise-focused VCs overwhelmingly assume that 2026 would be the yr that enterprises begin to see a significant return on their funding into AI merchandise.
Whereas Anthropic appears to be a transparent favourite for the time being, this yr will possible be telling of what the enterprise AI market — and its aggressive panorama — will appear to be sooner or later.
