Toshifumi Yoshizaki

Anthropic and NEC Partner to Deploy Claude Across 30,000 Employees and Build AI-Native Engineering in Japan

NEC Corporation will deploy Claude to approximately 30,000 employees worldwide and become Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner. The collaboration includes joint development of domain-specific AI products for Japanese finance, manufacturing, and local government sectors, as well as cybersecurity integration into NEC's Security Operations Center. NEC will establish a Center of Excellence to build one of Japan's largest AI-native engineering teams using Claude Code, and will integrate Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Code into its NEC BluStellar enterprise platform.