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Anthropic x Hitachi: Claude Lands on 290,000 Employees While Google Was Doing I/O
On May 18-19, 2026, Hitachi Ltd. and Anthropic PBC announced a strategic partnership deploying Claude across 290,000 employees, training 100,000 AI specialists, and launching a joint Frontier AI Deployment Center scaling from 100 to 300 experts across North America, Europe and Asia.