Anthropic PBC today announced that Accenture plc will broadly adopt its Claude series of large language models.

The collaboration expands upon an existing partnership between the companies. Last May, Anthropic teamed up with Accenture to help companies deploy artificial intelligence software. That initiative placed particular emphasis on organizations in highly regulated industries.

The new collaboration will see Accenture, a major provider of information technology services, launch a business unit called the Accenture Anthropic Business Group. It’s set to comprise about 30,000 professionals who will be trained to use Claude. Many of those professionals will be developers. 

One of the project’s goals is to help Accenture engineering teams adopt Claude Code, a programming assistant that Anthropic debuted in February. It enables developers to enter a natural language description of the program they wish to create and have an LLM generate it. Claude Code also eases related tasks. For example, developers can ask it to explain an unfamiliar code base they have been assigned to modernize. 

Accenture will not only adapt Claude internally but also help clients deploy the LLM series. As part of the initiative, it will team up with Anthropic to develop an offering that will make it easier for enterprises implement AI in their software projects. Additionally, the companies plan to co-develop offerings for highly regulated sectors such as the financial services and life sciences segments.

In the life sciences industry, Accenture plans to use Claude to help researchers analyze scientific datasets. The company also hopes to streamline adjacent tasks such as the process of creating experimental protocols. Those are the guidelines that determine how a scientific experiment should be carried out.

The financial services sector, another segment that the partnership will prioritize, has emerged as a major focus of Anthropic’s product development efforts. In July, it introduced a set of features called Claude for Financial Services to make investment professionals more productive. A few weeks ago, Anthropic extended the bundle with new capabilities that automate tasks such as generating free cash flow forecasts.

Accenture plans to expedite the Claude-powered software projects it will take on for clients by bringing the LLM series to its Accenture Innovation Hubs. According to the company, those are facilities where clients can test newly developed AI software before deploying it to production. The facilities will cater to Fortune Global 2,000 organizations.

The professional services giant will work with Anthropic will be supported by a new Claude Center of Excellence. The hub, which is set to be operated by the former company, will focus on developing industry-specific AI offerings.

“Our new partnership means that tens of thousands of Accenture developers will be using Claude Code, making this our largest ever deployment,” said Anthropic co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei.

The partnership comes about a month after Anthropic inked a deal with another major technology services company. In early November, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. announced plans to make Claude available to up to 350,000 employees. The staffers will use the AI to produce code for clients, generate technical documentation and perform related tasks. 

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