India's Wipro opens AI center for Anthropic's Claude in Bengaluru

June 16 (Reuters) - India's ‌Wipro said ​on ​Tuesday it has set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) for applied AI focused ‌on Anthropic's Claude models at its Bengaluru hub.

Wipro's ⁠move comes as AI-led automation pressures revenue of traditional ‌Indian IT services firms, ‌which lost billions of dollars in market value in February, partly following Anthropic's launch of an ​AI agent tool.

Here are some details:

• The CoE is expected to bolster the IT services ⁠firm's ability to scale enterprise AI adoption using Claude models.

• It ​is aimed at helping Wipro develop AI-based platforms and industry tools, and expand the ​use of AI across its ‌finance, human resources and sales teams.

• Wipro said it will train 10,000 ⁠employees to use Anthropic's Claude over the next 18 months.

• Analysts at Jefferies said Wipro expects compression in ⁠services revenue to weigh on growth in the coming quarters, ​while AI could help widen its addressable market through application rebuilds and workflow redesign.

• Investors are increasingly concerned that ‌AI tools could disrupt the labour-intensive business model of India's $315 billion IT ‌sector.

• On June 11, rival TCS said it ⁠had partnered with Anthropic ‌to launch an ​alliance to drive enterprise AI scaling.

(Reporting by Mridula Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Diti ‌Pujara)

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