SAN FRANCISCO - US tech giant IBM and AI startup Anthropic on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Anthropic's large language model Claude into IBM's software products.

Through the partnership, Claude will be first integrated into IBM's new AI-first integrated development environment, which is designed with advanced task generation capabilities for enterprise software development lifecycles, including software modernization, according to the announcement.

IBM also said that it is exploring plans to include Claude into additional IBM products as part of a product integration approach.

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"This partnership enhances our software portfolio with advanced AI capabilities while maintaining the governance, security, and reliability that our clients have come to expect. We're giving development teams AI that fits how enterprises work not experimental tools that create new risks," said Dinesh Nirmal, senior vice-president of software at IBM.

"This partnership with IBM lets us bring that same level of dedication to even more enterprise teams while building the open standards that will make AI agents genuinely useful in business environments," said Mike Krieger, chief product officer at Anthropic.

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IBM shares rose about 1.5 percent following the announcement.