IBM (IBM.US) teamed up with AI pioneer Anthropic to incorporate Claude models into internal tools and external product lines

Zhitongcaijing · 10/07/2025 12:41

The Zhitong Finance App learned that IBM (IBM.US) announced an in-depth cooperation with Anthropic to integrate the Claude series, the latter's large-scale language model, into selected internal and external development tools and enterprise products, with the aim of improving productivity for IBM customers.

The first stop of this partnership is IBM's newly launched AI-First integrated development environment (IDE) — the tool has been opened to private previews for some customers, and more than 6,000 internal early adopters have participated in testing. Its core features include advanced task generation capabilities for the enterprise software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as scenario support for software modernization.

Dinesh Nirmal, senior vice president of IBM Software, said, This collaboration strengthens the software product portfolio through advanced AI capabilities while strictly maintaining the governance, security, and reliability standards required by enterprise customers. We are providing AI that fits the way enterprises operate, rather than experimental tools that bring new risks.

As an AI startup supported by Amazon (AMZN.US) and Google (GOOGL.US), Anthropic's Claude model will gradually be incorporated into more IBM products.

At the TechXChange 2025 conference held at the same time, IBM also revealed a number of developments in software and infrastructure: from agentic orchestration to infrastructure automation, new features can support productivity improvements for developers, business lines, and infrastructure.

Among them, Watsonx Orchestra significantly enhances the performance of Agentic OrchestrationCore in the IBM agent AI framework, provides more than 500 tools and customizable domain agents from IBM and partners, supports scalable deployment across environments, and has built-in AgentOps to achieve agent observability and governance.

Additionally, IBM plans to expand functionality to mainframes through the upcoming WatsonX Assistant for Z. The dedicated Z agent will drive the transformation of system management from passive troubleshooting to active mode by understanding conversation contexts and automating processes to ensure security compliance.

As of press release, IBM's pre-market share price rose 4.47% to $302.39.