The company will use Claude in its platforms to help its clients modernize and scale artificial intelligence adoption, will provide Claude to up to 350,000 of its associates and will use Claude Code to accelerate coding, testing, documentation and DevOps workflows, according to a Tuesday (Nov. 4) press release.
Cognizant will enable clients to integrate AI with their existing data and applications by aligning its software engineering and platform offerings with Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent SDK, according to the release.
“Enterprises are moving beyond simple productivity gains toward a more connected, agentic future,” Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S said in the release. “By pairing Anthropic’s Claude models and agentic tooling with Cognizant’s suite of platforms and industry expertise, we will help clients build the foundations of an agentified enterprise where intelligent systems collaborate with people to accelerate modernization, engineering and industry transformation.”
Anthropic Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith said in the release: “The combination of frontier AI with deep domain expertise and implementation capabilities is what makes this partnership so exciting and will absolutely accelerate AI in the enterprise.”
When Anthropic announced in September that it raised $13 billion in a Series F funding round that valued it at $183 billion, the company said it now serves more than 300,000 business accounts and would use the new funding in part to expand its capacity to meet enterprise demand.
Divesh Makan, partner at ICONIQ, which led the funding round, said at the time in a press release: “Enterprise leaders tell us what we’re seeing firsthand—Claude is reliable, built on a trustworthy foundation and guided by leaders truly focused on the long term.”
IBM announced in October that it partnered with Anthropic to encourage the development of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Claude large language models into IBM’s software portfolio.
Also in October, Anthropic and Deloitte said they partnered to build AI solutions that include compliance features to enable their deployment in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare and life sciences.
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