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Buy The Plumbing, Not The Model
On Monday, HCLTech, India's third-largest IT services firm, announced a business unit dedicated entirely to Anthropic, adding to its Gemini business unit and its OpenAI partnership. Stephen thinks organizing around the AI lab is the wrong way to slice it: the model will matter less and less, and the plumbing around it will matter more.
In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:
What HCLTech announced. A Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic, a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit, forward-deployed engineers, and Claude inside its AI Force platform. Accenture formed an Anthropic business group…
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