Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of winning companies

AI research lab Anthropic continues to secure major corporate deals. Its latest involves bringing its major linguistic models to a former German insurance giant.

Anthropic on Friday announced a deal with Munich, Germany-based global insurance conglomerate Allianz to bring “responsible AI” to the insurance industry. The parties declined to share financial terms of the deal.

The partnership is made up 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 create custom AI agents for Allianz employees, capable of executing multi-step workflows with a human involved.

This partnership also includes an AI system that records all AI interactions to maintain AI transparency and ensure information is readily available for regulatory or other needs.

“With this partnership, Allianz takes a decisive step to address critical AI challenges in insurance,” said Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE, in the company’s press release. “Anthropic’s focus on security and transparency complements our strong commitment to customer excellence and stakeholder trust. Together, we are building solutions that prioritize what matters most to our customers while setting new standards in innovation and resiliency.”

This is just the latest corporate deal Anthropic has struck in recent months.

In December, the company signed a $200 million deal to bring its AI models to cloud computing company Snowflake and its customers. Shortly after, he announced a multi-year partnership with the consulting firm Accenture.

In October, it signed an agreement with the consulting firm Deloitte to offer its chatbot Claude to the firm’s 500,000 employees. The same month, Anthropic signed an agreement with IBM to integrate its AI models into the latter’s products.

The race for AI company dominance is clearly on, and Anthropic appears to be winning – at least so far.

Anthropic holds 40% market share in enterprise AI, study finds. December survey by investor Anthropic Menlo Venturesand 54% market share for AI coding. The market share of anthropogenics has increased throughout the last year. When Menlo’s original the survey was published in Julythe company had a 32% market share for overall corporate LLM usage.

Google launched its product dedicated to enterprise AI, Gemini Businessin October. At the time, the company said the product suite already had customers including fintech Klarna, design software company Figma and cruise operator Virgin Voyages, among others.

OpenAI launched its enterprise version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprisein 2023. Recently, the company reportedly expressed his deep concern in an internal memo that the success of Google Gemini was beginning to encroach on its business. Shortly after, the company released a report stating the use of ChatGPT in business has increased by 8 over the past year.

A recent TechCrunch Investor Survey found that enterprise-focused venture capital firms overwhelmingly believe that 2026 will be the year that companies begin to see a significant return on investment in AI products.

While Anthropic appears to be a clear favorite at the moment, this year will likely be indicative of what the enterprise AI market – and its competitive landscape – will look like in the future.