Artificial intelligence research lab Anthropic continues to land big institutional deals. The latest requires bringing its large language models to the old German insurance giant.
Anthropic on Friday announced a deal with global insurer Allianz, based in Munich, Germany, to bring “responsible AI” to the insurance industry. Both 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 programming tool, available to all Allianz employees. Anthropic and Allianz will also build custom AI agents for Allianz employees that can execute multi-step workflows with a human in the loop.
This partnership also includes an AI system that records all AI interactions to maintain AI transparency and ensure information is readily available to meet regulatory or other needs.
“With this partnership, Allianz is taking a decisive step to address critical AI challenges in the insurance industry,” Oliver Bate, CEO of Allianz SE, said in the company’s press release. “Anthropic’s focus on safety 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 for innovation and agility.”
This is just the latest corporate deal Anthropic has made in recent months.
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In December, the company signed a $200 million deal to bring its AI models to data cloud company Snowflake and its customers. Soon after, it announced a multi-year partnership with consulting firm Accenture.
In October, it signed a deal with consulting firm Deloitte to bring chatbot Claude to the company’s 500,000 employees. In the same month, Anthropic signed a deal with IBM to incorporate its AI models into the latter’s products.
It’s clear that the race for AI dominance is on, and Anthropic appears to be the winner — so far, at least.
Anthropic has 40% of the enterprise AI market share, according to A December survey from investor Anthropy Menlo VenturesAnd 54% of the market share for AI encryption. The humanitarian market share has increased throughout the past year. When the original Menlo survey was released in July, the company had a 32% market share of total enterprise LLM uses.
Google launched its enterprise AI product, Gemini Enterprise, in October. At the time, the company noted that the product suite already had clients including fintech Klarna, design software company Figma and cruise line operator Virgin Voyages, among others.
OpenAI launched its enterprise version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprise, in 2023. Recently, the company was reported to He expressed his deep concern In an internal memo, Google Gemini’s success was beginning to encroach on its business. Shortly after, the company released a report stating that enterprise use of ChatGPT had increased 8-fold in the past year.
A recent investor survey by TechCrunch found that enterprise-focused venture capital funds overwhelmingly believe that 2026 will be the year organizations start seeing a tangible return on their investments in AI products.
While Anthropics seems to be the clear favorite at the moment, this year will likely tell us what the enterprise AI market – and its competitive landscape – will look like in the future.
