Anthropic and NEC build Japan’s largest AI engineering workforce with Claude

AI Impact Summary

Anthropic and NEC are establishing a large-scale AI engineering workforce centered around Claude, with the goal of developing industry-specific AI solutions for the Japanese market. This collaboration will involve approximately 30,000 NEC Group employees and will focus on integrating Claude into various NEC services, including Security Operations Center and BluStellar Scenario. The creation of a Center of Excellence will focus on training and enabling NEC engineers to utilize Claude Code and Claude Cowork internally, mirroring NEC’s Client Zero initiative.