India's Wipro has opened a new artificial intelligence hub in Bengaluru centred on Anthropic's Claude models, the IT services giant announced.
The facility, which Wipro is calling an Applied AI Center of Excellence, is designed to help businesses adopt AI more widely and to weave the technology across Wipro's own services. According to the Times of India, the company plans to train 10,000 delivery experts on Claude models. YourStory reports that this training push is set to run over the next 18 months.
Wipro's stated goal, per the source coverage, is twofold: build deep internal expertise in Claude and use that expertise to integrate AI into the work it delivers for clients. In practical terms, that means thousands of employees skilling up on a single family of AI models rather than spreading effort thinly.
The move reflects a broader pattern in the global outsourcing industry, where large IT firms are racing to retool their workforces around generative AI and to anchor those efforts to specific model providers. By tying a dedicated centre and a large training commitment to Anthropic's Claude, Wipro is making a concrete bet on which models it expects clients to want.
Why it matters: when a company the size of Wipro commits to retraining 10,000 staff on one AI platform, it signals how quickly generative AI is reshaping the services that businesses everywhere rely on.