AI analysis lab Anthropic continues to land sizable enterprise offers. Its newest entails bringing its massive language fashions to a legacy German insurance coverage large.
Anthropic on Friday introduced a cope with Munich, Germany-based world insurance coverage conglomerate Allianz to deliver “accountable AI” to the insurance coverage trade. 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, accessible to all of Allianz’s workers. Anthropic and Allianz can even construct customized AI brokers for Allianz workers that may execute multi-step workflows with a human within the loop.
This partnership additionally consists of an AI system that logs all AI interactions to maintain the AI clear and be certain that data is available for regulatory or different wants.
“With this partnership, Allianz is taking a decisive step to handle vital AI challenges in insurance coverage,” Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE, stated within the firm’s press launch. “Anthropic’s concentrate on security and transparency enhances our robust dedication to buyer excellence and stakeholder belief. Collectively, we’re constructing options that prioritize what issues most to our clients whereas setting new requirements for innovation and resilience.”
That is simply the most recent enterprise deal Anthropic has landed in current 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 clients. Shortly after, it introduced a multi-year partnership with the consulting agency Accenture.
In October, it signed a cope with consulting agency Deloitte to deliver its Claude chatbot to the agency’s 500,000 workers. That very same month, Anthropic signed a cope 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 successful — thus far not less than.
Anthropic holds 40% of enterprise AI market share, based on 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 got here 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 clients 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. Just lately, 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 stated enterprise use of ChatGPT had surged 8x previously yr.
A current 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 in the meanwhile, this yr will possible be telling of what the enterprise AI market — and its aggressive panorama — will appear like sooner or later.
