Cognizant and Anthropic expand their partnership to bring Claude to enterprise clients

The expansion makes Cognizant a Global Premier Partner in Anthropic's Claude 3 model family, a top-tier partnership status. Cognizant will integrate Claude into its own business and engineering platforms, not just client systems, and scale a Claude-certified workforce under its new 'Frontier Certified' model. This move reflects Anthropic's push to win large enterprise deals against competitors like OpenAI and Microsoft, leveraging system integrators to reach global clients. It also indicates that enterprise demand for specialized AI certifications and embedded AI operations is growing, and the partnership may expand Cognizant's delivery of AI-transformed services across manufacturing, life sciences, and insurance.