AI research lab Anthropic continues to land sizable corporate deals. The latest is to bring the big language model to the German insurance giant.
Anthropic on Friday announced a deal with Munich-based global insurance conglomerate Allianz to bring “responsible AI” to the insurance industry. The parties declined to share the financial terms of the deal.
The partnership consists of three specific initiatives.
The first is to make Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding tool, available to all Allianz employees. Anthropic and Allianz will also build a custom AI agent for Allianz employees that can run multi-step workflows with humans in the loop.
This partnership also includes an AI system that logs all AI interactions to maintain AI transparency and ensure that information is available for regulatory or other needs.
“With this partnership, Allianz is taking an important step towards addressing critical AI challenges in insurance,” said Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE, in a company press release. “Anthropic’s focus on safety and transparency complements our strong dedication to customer excellence and stakeholder trust. Together, we are building solutions that prioritize our customers while setting new standards for innovation and resilience.”
This is just the latest corporate deal that Anthropic has done in recent months.
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In December, the company inked a $200 million deal to bring AI modeling to the Snowflake data cloud company and its customers. Shortly after, announced a multi-year partnership with consulting firm Accenture.
In October, it signed a deal with consulting firm Deloitte to bring its chatbot Claude to the company’s 500,000 employees. In the same month, Anthropic signed a deal with IBM to bring the AI model to the final product.
The race for corporate AI dominance is clear, and Anthropic appears to be winning — at least.
Anthropic holds 40% of the enterprise AI market share, according to a December survey from investor Anthropic Menlo Venturesand 54% market share for AI coding. Anthropic’s market share increased last year. When the original Menlo The survey came out in Julythe company holds a 32% market share for overall corporate LLM usage.
Google launches dedicated enterprise AI product, Gemini Companyin October. At the time, the company said its product suite already had customers including fintech Klarna, design software company Figma and cruise operator Virgin Voyages, among others.
OpenAI launches enterprise version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprisein 2023. Recently, the company reported expressed deep concern in an internal memo that the success of Google Gemini began to encroach on the business. Not long after, the company released a report that said Enterprise usage of ChatGPT has increased 8x in the past year.
A new TechCrunch investor survey found that many enterprise-focused VCs think that 2026 will be the year when enterprises begin to make meaningful investments in AI products.
While Anthropic seems to be the clear favorite now, this year will show what the enterprise AI market – and the competitive landscape – will look like in the future.