LTM joins Indian IT peers in Anthropic partnership to scale enterprise AI

IT services company LTM has partnered with AI startup Anthropic to accelerate enterprise adoption of Claude, Claude Code and Claude Cowork, joining a growing list of India-headquartered IT services firms betting on Anthropic's AI models as enterprise demand shifts from experimentation to production deployments.

As part of the partnership announced on Monday, LTM will integrate Anthropic's Claude family of AI models into its BlueVerse AI Delivery Fabric, the company's enterprise AI platform, to support software engineering, application modernisation, agent orchestration, site reliability engineering (SRE), observability and chaos engineering.

The collaboration will initially focus on customers across banking and financial services, high technology, consumer industries and manufacturing.

The latest partnership reflects a broader trend among IT services providers to build proprietary AI platforms while collaborating with leading foundation model companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, enabling enterprise customers to deploy AI at scale without being locked into a single model ecosystem.

LTM said it will also expand its AI1000 talent initiative by training thousands of Claude-certified architects and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), who will help enterprises assess, design, implement and optimise AI deployments.

The company will also establish a dedicated Claude Centre of Excellence (CoE) to develop reusable AI agents, reference architectures, implementation playbooks and governance frameworks covering responsible AI, model lifecycle management and data privacy compliance.

"LTM brings delivery expertise, trained people and long-standing client relationships across industries, and their customers want to embed Claude into the systems they rely on," said Chris Ciauri, Managing Director of International at Anthropic.

Venu Lambu, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of LTM, said the partnership combines Anthropic's Claude models with the company's BlueVerse platform, domain expertise and talent development programme to help enterprises translate AI investments into measurable business outcomes.

The two companies will also jointly pursue go-to-market initiatives and expand the internal use of Claude across LTM's software delivery lifecycle to improve productivity and establish standardised AI-assisted engineering practices.

In recent months, Infosys, TCS and Cognizant announced strategic partnerships with Anthropic, underscoring how Claude has rapidly emerged as one of the preferred foundation models for enterprise AI implementation.

The announcement also comes amid intensifying competition among IT services firms to build enterprise AI capabilities through strategic partnerships with frontier AI companies.

Last week, UST announced a strategic collaboration with Anthropic to train 12,000 employees in India, nearly 60% of its global workforce, on Claude, while jointly developing industry-specific AI solutions and accelerating enterprise AI deployments.

The latest agreement also follows DXC Technology's multi-year global alliance with Anthropic announced in June, under which Claude is being integrated into mission-critical enterprise systems. DXC subsequently launched its AI-first Customer Experience Centre in Bengaluru to help enterprises deploy AI across customer service, operations and software engineering.

Global consulting firms Accenture and Deloitte have also partnered with Anthropic in recent months.

Together, these partnerships underline Anthropic's growing presence in the enterprise AI market as IT services firms increasingly position themselves as implementation partners that combine proprietary platforms, domain expertise and skilled talent with leading foundation models.