Anthropic just secured one of its biggest enterprise deployments yet, spanning four of the most compliance-heavy industries on the planet.

On February 17, 2026, Infosys, a global IT consulting firm with over 330,000 employees across 63 countries, announced a strategic collaboration with Anthropic to deploy Claude-powered AI solutions across telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development. The announcement was made from Bengaluru, India.

The collaboration pairs Anthropic's Claude models — including Claude Code — with Infosys Topaz, the company's AI services platform, to help enterprises automate complex, multi-step workflows and build agentic AI systems in sectors where governance and compliance are non-negotiable.

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What Is Actually Being Built

The collaboration kicks off in telecommunications with a dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence— a purpose-built unit for developing and deploying industry-specific AI agents. Per the official Infosys press release, here's what gets built per industry:

Telecom gets AI agents built to modernize network operations, manage the full customer lifecycle, and improve service delivery. Financial services firms get tools for faster risk detection, automated compliance reporting, and personalized client interactions drawn from full account history and live market data. Manufacturing and engineering teams get Claude accelerating product design and simulation — more iterations, shorter R&D cycles before anything hits production. Software developers get Claude Code writing, testing, and debugging code. Infosys isn't waiting on clients to validate this — it's already running Claude Code inside its own Exponential Engineering teams.

The architecture connecting all four sectors is agentic AI, systems built to handle long, multi-step processes on their own, not just answer a single question and stop.

The People Behind the Deal

Speaking on the deal, Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei said: "There's a big gap between an AI model that works in a demo and one that works in a regulated industry — and if you want to close that gap, you need domain expertise. Infosys has exactly that kind of expertise across important industries: telecom, financial services, and manufacturing. Their developers are already using Claude Code to accelerate their work and to create AI agents for industries that demand precision, compliance, and deep domain knowledge."

Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said: "AI is not just transforming business — it is redefining the way industries operate and innovate. Our collaboration with Anthropic marks a strategic leap toward advancing enterprise AI, enabling organizations to unlock value and become more intelligent, resilient, and responsible."

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