IBM and Anthropic are partnering to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Anthropic’s Claude into IBM’s software portfolio to deliver measurable productivity gains, while building security, governance, and cost controls directly into the lifecycle of software development.
Through the partnership, Claude will be integrated into select IBM software products, starting with IBM’s new AI-first integrated development environment (IDE), designed with advanced task generation capabilities for enterprise software development lifecycles (SDLC), including software modernization.
“IBM has been the backbone of enterprise technology for decades because we understand what it takes to deploy at scale in mission-critical environments,” said Dinesh Nirmal, SVP, software at IBM. “This partnership enhances our software portfolio with advanced AI capabilities while maintaining the governance, security, and reliability that our clients have come to expect. We’re giving development teams AI that fits how enterprises work not experimental tools that create new risks.”
Using industry leading LLMs such as Claude, the new IBM IDE is built to enable developers to be more productive.
Beyond enhancing IBM’s software portfolio, IBM is contributing its enterprise technology leadership to advance open standards for AI deployment, according to the company.
IBM will contribute enterprise-grade assets to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) community, including best practices guides, reference architectures, and open-source tooling developed from IBM’s experience deploying AI across thousands of client environments.
IBM is exploring plans to include Claude into additional IBM products as part of a product integration approach, the company said.
“Enterprises are looking for AI they can actually trust with their code, their data, and their day-to-day operations,” said Mike Krieger, chief product officer at Anthropic. “Claude has become the go-to AI for developers at the world's largest companies because of our focus on safety and reliability. This partnership with IBM lets us bring that same level of dedication to even more enterprise teams while building the open standards that will make AI agents genuinely useful in business environments.”
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