Hitachi, Ltd. today announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic PBC, a global leader in AI safety research and trusted AI models, to further strengthen the "Lumada 3.0" business model. The companies will accelerate the advancement of system engineering, operations, and cybersecurity for critical infrastructure sectors including energy, transportation, manufacturing, and finance.
Hitachi partners with Anthropic to advance physical AI in critical infrastructure sectors.
Hitachi will deploy Claude across all business processes for approximately 290,000 employees worldwide.
Plan to cultivate approximately 100,000 AI professional talent through joint programs.
Establishing "Frontier AI Deployment Center" with initial team of 100 experts (scaling to 300).
Hitachi aims to become one of world's largest enterprise adopters of Claude.
Hitachi FY2025 revenues totaled 10,586.7 billion yen with 606 consolidated subsidiaries.
Accelerating AX through integration of Anthropic's Claude and Hitachi's capabilities: Combining Claude's advanced code generation and analysis with Hitachi's system engineering expertise to deliver improvements in efficiency and quality across customers' system development and operations.
Enterprise-wide transformation at Hitachi: Hitachi aims to become one of the world's largest enterprise adopters of Claude, deploying advanced AI across all business processes for approximately 290,000 employees. This includes reducing development effort in software engineering, enhancing efficiency in corporate functions, and automating maintenance and operational processes.
Advancing HMAX through frontier AI: Claude's high-level reasoning capabilities will be integrated into HMAX to expand AI applications in mission-critical environments, including intuitive equipment management through natural language interaction and optimization of maintenance operations.
Frontier AI Deployment Center: The Center will serve as the core of Hitachi's AI collaboration ecosystem, beginning with a joint team of approximately 100 experts expected to scale to 300 over time, driving co-creation of physical AI use cases and deployment in real-world settings.
Jun Abe, Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Systems & Services Sector, Hitachi, said: "Through our Social Innovation Business, Hitachi has long contributed to the realization of a sustainable society. Today, as challenges facing frontline workers become more pronounced due to a shrinking workforce, we are very pleased that through this strategic partnership, Hitachi can jointly solve customer and social challenges by combining Anthropic's highly trusted AI technology with Hitachi's domain expertise in mission-critical areas and our IT, OT, and product capabilities. As a global leader continuing to innovate social infrastructure with digital technologies, and by leveraging advanced AI ourselves as a practitioner, we will accelerate transformation at our customers' frontlines and promote true Digital Transformation in the real world."
Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi aims to be a global leader in continuously transforming social infrastructure through digital, contributing to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates worldwide across four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – as well as a Strategic SIB Business Unit focused on new growth areas. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi creates value by combining data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2025 (ended March 31, 2026) totaled 10,586.7 billion yen, with 606 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 290,000 employees worldwide.
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