Indian IT giant Infosys on Tuesday announced that it has partnered with Anthropic to develop an enterprise-grade AI agent as automation with large-scale language models reshapes the global IT services industry.
Under the partnership, Infosys will integrate Anthropic’s Claude model into the Topaz AI platform to build so-called “agent” systems. The companies claim these agents will be able to autonomously handle complex enterprise workflows across industries such as banking, telecommunications and manufacturing. The partnership will be announced at India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, which will be attended by heads of AI companies and Big Tech alike.
The partnership comes amid concerns that AI tools, especially those built by leading AI institutes such as Anthropic and OpenAI, could disrupt India’s $280 billion headcount-heavy IT services industry and call into question the future of labor-intensive outsourcing business models. Earlier this month, shares of the Indian IT company plunged after Anthropic announced a suite of enterprise AI tools that it claims will automate tasks across legal, sales, marketing and research roles.
The partnership will give Infosys, one of the world’s largest IT services companies, access to Anthropic’s Claude model and developer tools for building customized AI agents for large enterprises. Infosys said it will use Anthropic’s Claude Code to help write, test and debug code, and has already brought the tool in-house to build expertise applied to client work.
Infosys also detailed how AI is contributing to its business. AI-related services generated revenue of 25 billion rupees (about $275 million), which accounted for 5.5% of the company’s total revenue of 454.8 billion rupees (about $5 billion) in the December quarter. Rival Tata Consultancy Services previously said its AI services generate about $1.8 billion a year, or about 6% of its revenue.
For Anthropic, this partnership provides a path into the highly regulated corporate sector, where deploying AI systems at scale requires industry expertise and governance capabilities.
“There is a huge disconnect between AI models that work in demos and AI models that work in regulated industries,” said Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. Infosys’ experience in sectors such as financial services, telecom and manufacturing will help fill that gap, he said.
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Anthropic this week opened its first India office in Bangalore, as it looks to further expand into the country, which has become the company’s second-largest market. Anthropic said India currently accounts for about 6% of the world’s use of code, second only to the United States, and much of its activity is focused on programming.
Infosys has not disclosed the implementation schedule for the Claude-powered AI agent or the financial terms of the contract.
The partnership is similar to other moves by Indian IT services companies. HCLTech and OpenAI partnered last year to help enterprises deploy AI tools at scale.
