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Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) has signed a global strategic partnership with Anthropic, giving India’s largest IT services company deeper access to Claude as it tries to move enterprise AI projects beyond pilots and into production.

Under the agreement, TCS will set up a dedicated business unit focused on Anthropic’s Claude family of AI models. The company will also give 50,000 employees access to Claude across engineering, finance, legal, marketing and sales.

TCS will become a Global Premier Partner in Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, giving it early access to Claude models and support to build industry-specific AI offerings for clients.

The partnership comes as Indian IT services firms face growing investor concern that AI could weaken the sector’s labor-intensive model. 

India’s IT services industry is worth about $315 billion and Indian IT firms lost more than $62.8 billion in market value in February, partly after Anthropic launched an AI agent tool.

TCS has also been signaling a shift in its own workforce model. 

Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said at the company’s annual general meeting this week that IT firms are likely to slow hiring as TCS moves toward a workforce made up of both employees and AI agents.

TCS cut more than 12,000 jobs last July and its net headcount fell by more than 23,000 in the fiscal year ended March 2026.

The partnership is aimed at sectors where generative AI adoption has been slower because of stricter requirements around accuracy, auditability and oversight.

TCS and Anthropic said they will jointly develop and sell AI solutions for financial services, public services, life sciences, healthcare, aviation, telecom and medical technology.

“In regulated industries, most AI initiatives stall at the pilot stage, where the requirements for accuracy, auditability and oversight are far more stringent, and the consequences of error significantly higher,” TCS said.

The companies will focus on domain-specific workflows, legacy modernization and customer-experience transformation. 

TCS said it will also build reusable skills and plugins for Claude Code, including tools for claims adjudication and lending advisory.

The partnership will extend to TCS businesses and platforms. 

In the UK, Diligenta, TCS’ Financial Conduct Authority-regulated life and pensions business, will use Claude to improve customer experience through agentic process transformation. 

TCS said Diligenta serves more than 22 million life and pensions customers.

TCS’ banking and financial services products teams will use Claude Code to improve productivity in software engineering and IT operations.

TCS iON, the company’s education and assessment platform, will offer training and certification programs around Claude models. TCS said the platform conducts more than 75 million assessments a year across 1,500 Indian cities.

“Enterprise AI value comes from understanding business context, orchestrating complex systems, and applying deep AI engineering talent,” TCS Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director K. Krithivasan said. “By combining Claude with our industry expertise, engineering rigor, and large-scale transformation capabilities, we will help customers move faster to production, especially in industries where trust, resilience, and regulatory discipline are critical.”

Anthropic co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said the partnership deepens the company’s commitment to India, which he described as its second-largest market.

“We built Claude to be safe, trusted, and helpful, particularly in contexts where accuracy matters most,” Amodei said.

For TCS, the deal adds another AI partnership as it tries to position itself as an AI-led technology services company. The company said it generated more than $30 billion in consolidated revenue in the fiscal year ended 31 March 2026.