Anthropic adds Allianz to its growing list of successful businesses

AI research lab Anthropic continues to make big investments. His latest projects include bringing his key languages ​​to a German insurance giant.

Anthropic on Friday announced a partnership with Munich, Germany-based international insurance conglomerate Allianz to bring “reliable AI” to the insurance industry. The parties refused to share the costs of the agreement.

This agreement is made up of three unique elements.

The first is to make Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding tool, available to all Allianz employees. Anthropic and Allianz will also build AI assistants for Allianz employees that can perform multiple steps with a human in the loop.

The partnership also includes an AI system that integrates all AI activities to make AI transparent and ensure that information is readily available for management or other needs.

“With this partnership, Allianz is taking an important step in addressing the challenges of AI in insurance,” Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE, said in a press release. “Anthropic’s focus on security and transparency complements our commitment to our customers and the trust of our stakeholders. Together we are creating solutions that prioritize what matters most to our customers while setting new standards for technology and reliability.”

This is the latest business Anthropic has acquired in recent months.

In December, the company wrote a $200 million bringing its AI models to cloud data company Snowflake and its customers. Soon after, it announced a multi-year partnership is an Accenture company.

In October, it signed a deal with consulting firm Deloitte to bring its Claude chatbot to the company’s 500,000 employees. The same month, Anthropic signed a contract with IBM to bring its AI models into the final product.

The race to dominate business AI is well underway, and Anthropic seems to be winning — so far.

Anthropic has 40% of the AI ​​market share, according to a A December survey from investor Anthropic Menlo Ventureswith 54% of the AI ​​coding market share. Anthropic’s market share grew last year. When the original Menlo The survey came out in Julythe company had a market share of 32% for all LLM projects.

Google has launched its dedicated AI business, Gemini Enterprisein October. At the time, the company said that the company already has clients including fintech Klarna, software company Figma and tour operator Virgin Voyages, among others.

OpenAI launched its ChatGPT business, ChatGPT Enterprisein 2023. Recently, the company says he showed great concern in an internal memo that the success of Google Gemini began to disrupt its business. Soon after, the company released a report that said industry usage of ChatGPT increased 8x in the last year.

A soon TechCrunch business survey found that business-focused VCs think 2026 will be the year businesses start to see a profitable return on their investment in AI products.

While Anthropic appears to be the current favorite, this year will be telling of what the enterprise AI market – and its competitive landscape – will look like in the future.