Anthropic secures Allianz deal as enterprise AI market share hits 40%, outpacing rivals

Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins | TechCrunch

AI research lab Anthropic continues to land sizable enterprise deals. Its latest entails bringing its large language models to a legacy 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 making Claude Code, Anthropic's AI-powered coding tool, available to all of Allianz's 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 logs all AI interactions to keep the AI transparent and ensure that information is readily available for regulatory or other needs. "With this partnership, Allianz is taking a decisive step to address critical AI challenges in insurance," Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE, said in the company's press release. "Anthropic's focus on safety and transparency complements our strong dedication 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 resilience." This is just the latest enterprise deal Anthropic has landed in recent months. In December, the company inked a $200 million deal to bring its AI models to data cloud company Snowflake and its customers. Shortly after, it announced a multi-year partnership with the consulting firm Accenture. In October, it signed a deal with consulting firm Deloitte to bring its Claude chatbot to the firm's 500,000 employees. That same month, Anthropic signed a deal with IBM to bring its AI models into the latter's products. The race for AI enterprise dominance is clearly on, and Anthropic appears to be winning -- so far at least. Anthropic holds 40% of enterprise AI market share, according to a December survey from Anthropic investor Menlo Ventures, and 54% of the market share for AI coding. Anthropic market share increased throughout last year. When Menlo's original survey came out in July, the company held a 32% market share for overall enterprise LLM use. Google launched its dedicated enterprise AI product, Gemini Enterprise, in October. At the time, the company touted that the product suite already had customers 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 reportedly expressed deep concern in an internal memo that Google Gemini's success was starting to encroach on its business. Shortly after, the company released a report that said enterprise use of ChatGPT had surged 8x in the past year. A recent TechCrunch investor survey found that enterprise-focused VCs overwhelmingly think that 2026 will be the year that enterprises start to see a meaningful return on their investment into AI products. While Anthropic seems to be a clear favorite at the moment, this year will likely be telling of what the enterprise AI market -- and its competitive landscape -- will look like in the future.

Anthropic and Allianz team up to bring transparent AI to the insurance sector

Anthropic secured an enterprise deal with Germany-based insurance conglomerate Allianz to integrate its Claude models into Allianz's internal AI platform. The partnership targets benchmarks for responsible AI use in insurance by balancing automation with human involvement and regulatory guidelines. The collaboration centers on three areas: workforce empowerment, operations automation through agentic AI, and regulatory compliance. In workforce empowerment, Anthropic's Claude Code becomes available to every Allianz employee, enabling broader access to advanced coding capabilities within the organization. For operations automation, the companies plan custom AI agents that handle multi-step workflows. These agents focus particularly on motor insurance claims and health insurance claims processing. A human remains in the loop at all stages to oversee and intervene as needed, ensuring controlled automation. On regulatory compliance, Anthropic and Allianz intend to co-develop AI systems that record every decision, along with its rationale and data sources. This logging provides full traceability, meeting stringent insurance sector regulations. Allianz CEO Oliver Bate stated his company is taking a decisive step to address critical AI challenges in the insurance industry, while highlighting Anthropic's focus on safety and transparency. Neither Allianz nor Anthropic disclosed financial terms of the deal. Last month, Anthropic announced a multi-year partnership with consulting firm Accenture. This agreement assists enterprises in transitioning from AI pilots to full-scale deployments. A December survey by Anthropic investor Menlo Ventures indicated Anthropic holds 40 percent of the enterprise AI market share and 54 percent of the AI coding market share.

Allianz Taps Anthropic to Help Deploy AI Throughout Its Insurance Business | PYMNTS.com

By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications from PYMNTS and to the sharing of your information with our sponsor, if applicable, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. The financial services provider and the AI startup have formed a global partnership to make this happen, and the first projects are already underway, the companies said in a Friday (Jan. 9) press release. The companies plan to add Anthropic's Claude models to Allianz's internal AI platform that is available to everyone within Allianz. The applications will include Claude Code to help Allianz's developers with software development, and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) to help employees integrate data sources across different applications, according to the release. They are also developing custom AI agents to orchestrate multi-step workflows and automate labor-intensive process such as intake documentation and claims processing, while also enabling Allianz employees to handle cases that are sensitive or complex, the release said. The third area in which Allianz and Anthropic will collaborate is in co-developing AI systems that log every decision, rationale and data source to ensure AI-driven actions are traceable and compliant with regulations, per the release. "With this partnership, Allianz is taking a decisive step to address critical AI challenges in insurance," Allianz SE CEO Oliver Bäte said in the release. "Anthropic's focus on safety and transparency complements our strong dedication to customer excellence and stakeholder trust." Anthropic CEO and Co-founder Dario Amodei said in the release that insurance is an industry in which the stakes of using AI are particularly high. "Allianz and Anthropic both take that very seriously, and we look forward to working together to make insurance better for those who depend on it," Amodei said. Anthropic announced in September that its number of business accounts had topped 300,000, its Claude Code tool for developers generated run-rate revenue of over $500 million, and its overall run-rate revenue had leapt from about $1 billion at the beginning of 2025 to over $5 billion in August. PYMNTS reported Thursday (Jan. 8) that many insurers are turning to generative AI models to strengthen their defenses against increasingly sophisticated insurance fraud that is powered by deepfakes, synthetic voice technology and AI-generated images.