Hitachi partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude across 290,000 employees and strengthen Lumada 3.0
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Hitachi has partnered with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI across its 290,000-strong workforce as part of its Lumada 3.0 strategy. The deal includes a Frontier AI Deployment Center, a 100,000-employee AI training programme, and integration of Claude into Hitachi’s HMAX solutions for critical infrastructure.
Hitachi has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic that will see the Japanese industrial conglomerate deploy Claude AI models across its entire workforce of approximately 290,000 employees, in what it describes as a move to strengthen its “Lumada 3.0” business model. The deal positions Hitachi as one of the largest enterprise adopters of Claude globally, and signals Anthropic’s deepening push into heavy industry and critical infrastructure.
What Lumada 3.0 actually means
Lumada, a portmanteau of “illuminate” and “data,” has been Hitachi’s flagship digital services platform for nearly a decade. The 3.0 iteration represents a strategic pivot toward what Hitachi calls “physical AI,” the application of...
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