The generative AI vendor and the global consulting firm have formed an expanded partnership aimed at embedding AI in the infrastructure of more large companies — with Claude at its core.
The Big Four firm has agreed to use Claude in key areas as it bids to ramp up AI use for clients across multiple industries.
Claude Code will be deployed to speed up agentic technology development, enabling software to be shipped more quickly than it is now.
PwC says it has a growing portfolio of clients looking to increase the use of AI agents, spanning industries as diverse as financial services, pharma and life sciences.
The partners will also focus on improving deal-making processes, with agents working alongside existing teams.
The deal includes a commitment to build AI-native, scalable operating models that cover all elements of a business.
PwC and Anthropic said several live deployments are already running. These include professional sports operations, where Claude is helping to rethink digital fan engagement and agent-led management.
The insurance sector is also seeing Claude implementations, with underwriting cycles reduced from weeks to days, as is cybersecurity, where agents are responding to exposure threats in minutes rather than hours, meaning they can be shut down before any harm is done.
In addition to trying to establish Claude as the go-to AI in corporations across the U.S and globally, PwC is moving toward providing access to hundreds of thousands of its own employees worldwide.
This will be underpinned by a Center of Excellence run jointly with Anthropic, which will devise a program to train 30,000 PwC professionals in the U.S.
Claude is already available on the firm’s internal AI assistant, ChatPwC.
Anthropic has made no secret of its desire to increase enterprise AI revenues, with CFO Krishna Rao explaining at the company’s last funding round of $30 billion in February that the investment would be used to build more enterprise-grade products.
The PwC partnership comes amid speculation, first reported by Bloomberg, that Anthropic is in talks to raise $30 billion at a valuation of $900 billion.
