Anthropic is on a mission to make Claude the default AI tool for corporate America, and PwC, a Big Four firm, is now one of its biggest channels.
On Thursday, PwC and Anthropic announced a significant expansion of their partnership. This supports efforts to embed AI into the underlying infrastructure of large enterprises.
This expanded partnership will focus on three areas: helping our engineering teams build agent AI tools for our customers, deploying AI across the trading process, and reinventing our customers’ underlying operating models with AI.
PwC will train and certify 30,000 U.S. employees on Claude Code and expand the product to 364,000 employees worldwide. The two companies will also establish a joint center of excellence.
The partnership brings together Anthropic’s AI capabilities and PwC’s industry experience, and the combination allows organizations to “move from exploration to enterprise-wide impact with more confidence,” Paul Griggs, senior partner and CEO of PwC US, said in a press release.
Claude is already available in ChatPwC, the company’s in-house AI assistant, which is already used for customer engagement in finance, supply chain, and deal-making.
In a press release, Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, praised PwC’s client outcomes through AI: “An underwriting job that used to take 10 weeks is now done in 10 days. Security tasks that used to take hours are now done in minutes.”
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Bloomberg/Getty Images
The partnership is the latest in a series of similar announcements between Anthropic and service providers that will shape how companies spend money, buy technology and redesign work.
Anthropic announced in early May that it had partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management in a $1.5 billion AI services venture aimed at helping businesses adopt Anthropic’s technology.
This strategy gives Anthropic access not only to the biggest names on Wall Street and the professional services industry, but also to hundreds of portfolio companies and enterprise customers who need to prove that AI can improve productivity and profitability.
OpenAI has partnerships with leading consulting firms such as BCG, Accenture, Capgemini, and PwC. Meanwhile, Google recently announced that: was launching a $750 million fund to help consulting firms like McKinsey, Accenture, and Deloitte deploy agent AI to their clients.
According to data published in Ramp’s AI Index in May, Anthropic reached a business adoption rate of 34.4% in April, overtaking OpenAI’s 32.3%, a dramatic reversal in a market once dominated by OpenAI. Data shows that Anthropic’s Claude Code product is one of the main reasons for the surge in adoption.