Fujitsu to deploy Anthropic’s Claude to 100,000 staff in Japan

Fujitsu will deploy Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant to roughly 100,000 Fujitsu Group employees in Japan and integrate Anthropic’s models into its Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) program and cybersecurity services, the two companies announced.

The rollout is intended to speed internal development work, improve daily operations and help build frameworks for safe, reliable AI use across Fujitsu’s business units. Fujitsu plans to apply lessons from the internal deployment to customer projects, with an emphasis on compliance, security and operational reliability.

Under the agreement Fujitsu will receive early access to Anthropic’s latest models and incorporate them into future customer solutions. The company said it will combine Claude with its own AI technologies, including the Fujitsu Kozuchi platform and the Takane large language model, to meet customer requirements for data control and regulatory compliance.

Fujitsu will extend its FDE model by pairing Claude-powered tools with engineers embedded on customer sites. Yoshinami Takahashi, corporate executive officer and COO responsible for solution services, explained that the company intends to strengthen and accelerate the FDE approach so AI is translated into measurable improvements through close work with customer operations.

The firms described a focus on cyber defense for systems that support critical services. Fujitsu plans to combine human security specialists with AI-assisted operations to speed incident response and enhance protection across enterprises and essential services. The company also said it will collaborate with the Japanese government to share findings from the deployments to inform broader security practices.

Anthropic’s commercial team framed the agreement as a major commitment in Japan. Paul Smith, Anthropic’s chief commercial officer, noted Fujitsu’s long-standing customer relationships in banking, healthcare and government and highlighted plans to deploy Claude internally and assemble a 1,000-person engineering team to support customers.

Fujitsu said the combined deployment will target sector-specific use cases while addressing demands for data control and regulatory oversight. By embedding Claude into existing tools and workflows, the company aims to shorten development cycles and develop repeatable processes for safe AI deployment that can be offered to clients.

The announcement centers on putting advanced language models into operational contexts where firms require high reliability and clear compliance paths. Fujitsu and Anthropic did not provide a detailed public timeline for the full customer rollout or pricing for the integrated services.