Anthropic is on a mission to make Claude a default AI tool for corporate America — and the Big Four firm PwC is now one of its biggest routes in.
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On Thursday, PwC and Anthropic announced a major expansion of their alliance, a move that will help their efforts to embed AI into the underlying infrastructure of large companies.
The expanded partnership will focus on three areas: helping engineering teams build agentic AI tools for clients, deploying AI across the dealmaking process, and reinventing clients’ underlying operating models with AI.
PwC will train and certify 30,000 US employees in Claude Code and expand the product to its global workforce of 364,000. The two companies will also establish a joint Center of Excellence.
The partnership brings together Anthropic’s AI capabilities and PwC’s industry experience, a combination that helps organizations “move from exploration to enterprise-wide impact with greater confidence,” said Paul Griggs, a senior partner and CEO of PwC US, in a press release.
Claude is already available in ChatPwC — the firm’s internal AI assistant — and is already being used on client engagements in finance, supply chain, and dealmaking.
In a press release, Dario Amodei, cofounder and CEO of Anthropic, praised PwC’s client outcomes with AI, saying, “Insurance underwriting that took 10 weeks now takes 10 days. Security work that took hours now takes minutes.”
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The partnership is the latest in a string of similar announcements between Anthropic and service providers that shape how companies spend money, buy technology, and redesign work.
Anthropic announced earlier in May that it has partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management on a $1.5 billion AI-services venture designed to help businesses deploy Anthropic’s technology.
That strategy gives Anthropic access not just to marquee corporate names across Wall Street and the professional services industry, but also to the hundreds of portfolio companies and corporate clients under pressure to prove that AI can lift productivity and margins.
OpenAI has alliance partnerships with major consulting firms like BCG, Accenture, Capgemini, and PwC. Meanwhile, Google announced recently that it was launching a $750 million fund to help consulting firms like McKinsey, Accenture, and Deloitte roll out agentic AI to their clients.
In May, data released in Ramp’s AI Index shows that Anthropic reached 34.4% business adoption in April, overtaking OpenAI at 32.3%, a dramatic reversal in a market OpenAI once dominated. Anthropic’s Claude Code product is one of the key reasons adoption has surged, according to the data.
