Artificial intelligence research lab Anthropic continues to land major business deals. The latest involves the transfer of its large language models to a legacy German insurance giant.
Anthropic on Friday announced a deal with Munich, Germany-based global insurer Allianz to bring “responsible artificial intelligence” to the insurance industry. The 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 coding tool, available to all Allianz employees. Anthropic and Allianz will also create custom AI agents for Allianz employees that can perform multi-step workflows with a human in the loop.
This partnership also includes an AI system that logs all AI interactions to keep AI transparent and ensure that information is readily available for regulatory or other needs.
“With this partnership, Allianz is taking a decisive step in addressing critical AI challenges in the insurance sector,” said Oliver Bäte, CEO of Allianz SE, in the company’s press release. “Anthropic’s focus on security and transparency complements our strong commitment to customer excellence and stakeholder trust. Together, we’re building solutions that prioritize what matters most to our customers while setting new standards for innovation and resilience.”
This is just the latest business 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. A little later he announced a multi-year partnership with the consulting firm Accenture.
In October, it signed a deal with consulting firm Deloitte to bring the Claude chatbot to the company’s 500,000 employees. That same month, Anthropic signed a deal with IBM to bring its AI models to the latter’s products.
The battle for business dominance in artificial intelligence is clearly on, and Anthropic appears to be winning — at least so far.
Anthropic has 40% of the business AI market share, according to a December research by Anthropic Menlo Ventures investorand 54% market share for AI coding. Anthropic’s market share has grown over the past year. When Menlo’s original survey was released in July, the company had a 32% market share of total business LLM usage.
Google launched its dedicated enterprise AI product, Gemini Enterprise, in October. At the time, the company claimed the product suite already had customers including fintech Klarna, software design firm Figma and cruise line operator Virgin Voyages, among others.
OpenAI released its enterprise version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprise, in 2023. Recently, the company reportedly expressed deep concern in an internal memo that the success of Google Gemini was beginning to encroach on its business. Shortly thereafter, the company published a report that stated that the enterprise use of ChatGPT had grown 8x in the past year.
A recent TechCrunch investor survey found that enterprise-focused VCs overwhelmingly believe that 2026 will be the year enterprises begin to see a meaningful return on their investment in AI products.
While Anthropic appears to be a clear favorite right now, this year will likely be indicative of what the business AI market — and its competitive landscape — will look like in the future.
