Technology giant IBM is collaborating with AI research lab Anthropic to integrate artificial intelligence into its software. Based in Armonk, New York, IBM announced it will incorporate Anthropic’s Claude large language model family into some of its software products. The announcement was made on a Tuesday. The first product to utilize Claude will be IBM’s integrated development environment, which is currently available to a select group of customers.
IBM also revealed that it created a guide in partnership with Anthropic. This guide details how enterprises can build, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade AI agents. The financial terms of the deal between the two companies were not publicly disclosed.
Anthropic has been actively expanding into the enterprise sector since it released its Claude Enterprise plan in September 2024. The company also recently announced a separate agreement to bring Claude to the consulting firm Deloitte. This rollout will make Claude available to Deloitte’s nearly 500,000-person global workforce, representing the largest enterprise deployment for Anthropic to date.
A study conducted by Menlo Ventures in July found that enterprises prefer Claude models over any other AI models, including those from OpenAI. The same study noted that enterprise usage of OpenAI’s models has been in decline since 2023.