Anthropic and NEC Partner to Build Japan's Largest AI Engineering Workforce

Summary

Anthropic and NEC Corporation announced a strategic partnership in which NEC will deploy Claude to approximately 30,000 employees worldwide, making NEC "Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner." The collaboration is built around NEC's BluStellar Scenario consulting and AI tools program, which will integrate both Claude Code and Claude Cowork. The primary stated goal is establishing one of Japan's largest AI-native engineering teams through a Center of Excellence, supported by direct technic