HCLTech Partners With Anthropic To Launch Dedicated Agentic AI Business Unit

HCLTech announced a global partnership with Anthropic on Monday to set up a dedicated business unit for building agentic AI solutions. The Noida-based IT services company stated in an exchange filing that the new unit will use Claude to serve enterprise clients.

Business Unit Setup

The partnership focuses on helping businesses adopt agentic AI systems that carry out tasks with limited human input. The new business unit features a centre of excellence to develop these solutions and gives clients secure test environments to deploy Claude through HCLTech engineers.

Product Integration

HCLSoftware has become an independent software vendor partner with Anthropic. It will embed Claude into select enterprise products including HCL BigFix and HCL AppScan. HCLTech will also add Claude and Claude Code to its AIForce platform for IT support and fixing code.

Leadership Statement

Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, said they build Claude to give companies confidence to bring AI into their most sensitive work. HCLTech manages such systems for banks, hospitals, telecom companies and manufacturers.

Context

Major technology firms frequently partner with artificial intelligence model developers to bring advanced tools to corporate clients. These arrangements allow IT service providers to build specialized applications while AI creators expand their market reach across major industries.