HCLTech partners Anthropic, sets up Agentic AI business unit

India's HCLTech has signed a partnership with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI, focusing on safety, cybersecurity and governance. The IT services firm will establish a dedicated business unit and centre of excellence to build solutions using Anthropic's products.

BENGALURU, Oct 12 — India's HCLTech on Monday signed a partnership with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance.

Under the agreement, HCLTech will establish a dedicated business unit with a centre of excellence to build Agentic AI solutions. The country's third-largest IT services firm will embed Anthropic's products such as Claude, Cowork and Claude Code into industry-specific solutions.

HCLTech's teams will develop solutions across sectors and integrate Anthropic's technology to help enterprises deploy AI agents with strong governance frameworks. The partnership marks HCLTech's push into the fast-growing enterprise AI market.

The company will announce its second quarter results later in the day.