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Anthropic and IBM Announce Strategic Partnership

(Tuesday October 07, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD) from the AI-partnerships dept.)


Longtime Slashdot reader [1]kamesh shares a report from TechCrunch:

> Tech behemoth IBM is [2]teaming up with AI research lab Anthropic to bring AI into its software. Armonk, New York-based IBM [3]announced it will be adding Anthropic's Claude large language model family into some of its software products on Tuesday. The first product to tap Claude will be IBM's integrated development environment, which is already available to a select group of customers. IBM also announced it created a guide in partnership with Anthropic on how enterprises can build, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade AI agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.



[1] https://slashdot.org/~kamesh

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/anthropic-and-ibm-announce-strategic-partnership/

[3] https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-10-07-2025-ibm-and-anthropic-partner-to-advance-enterprise-software-development-with-proven-security-and-governance



allow me to hijack this thread (Score:5, Insightful)

by Big Hairy Gorilla ( 9839972 )

Is is me, or are the big co's all choosing AI dance partners right now?

So this is my inflammatory point: this consolidation contributes to unfettered power by the biggest players.

There must be limits put on growth or size of companies, this current path leads to self destruction.

Re: (Score:2)

by 0123456 ( 636235 )

> Is is me, or are the big co's all choosing AI dance partners right now?

Any MBA who doesn't go all-in on AI at this point stands to lose millions on their stock options for not following the fad.

It doesn't matter whether it's a good idea for the business because the MBA will be gone before the consequences appear.

Watson is going to save Anthropic (Score:3)

by thesjaakspoiler ( 4782965 )

Because Watson already was the AGI big boy decades ago, solving chess problems, medical problems and brought world peace while idling during solving much more many other problems!

After Snow White used a couple rolls of film taking pictures of the
seven dwarfs, she mailed the roll to be developed. Later she was heard to
sing, "Some day my prints will come."