New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- Infosys and Anthropic on Tuesday announced a strategic collaboration to build and deploy AI agents for companies in telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development, with the partnership initially launching through a dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence focused on the telecom sector.

The agreement pairs Anthropic's Claude large language models - including Claude Code, its AI-powered coding tool - with Infosys Topaz, the Indian IT giant's suite of enterprise AI services.

The companies said the combined offering is designed to move beyond simple question-and-answer interactions toward "agentic AI": systems capable of independently executing multi-step tasks such as processing insura...