Overview
- Wipro launched an Applied AI Centre of Excellence for Anthropic’s Claude models in Bengaluru on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
- The company said it will train and certify 10,000 front-line delivery experts over the next 18 months to design, deploy and operate Claude-based systems.
- Wipro plans to embed Claude capabilities into finance, human resources and sales systems and to build AI-native platforms and industry solutions for mortgage, healthcare, airlines, manufacturing and consumer goods.
- Analysts at Jefferies warn the shift could compress near-term services revenue as work is automated, even as productized AI offerings promise to widen Wipro’s addressable market through application rebuilds and workflow redesign.
- The launch follows a recent Anthropic tie-up by rival TCS and signals a broader vendor-partnership race in India’s IT sector as firms pivot from labour-heavy services to consulting-led, AI-native offerings.