BMS shakes with Anthropic to deploy Claude Enterprise across global pharma operations

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS; NYSE: BMY, Princeton, NJ) and Anthropic announced a strategic agreement to deploy Claude AI as the company’s shared intelligence platform across research, clinical development, manufacturing, commercial, and corporate functions, covering more than 30,000 BMS employees globally. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The partnership centers on Claude Enterprise, Anthropic’s enterprise AI platform, which BMS will deploy across the organization rather than within a single function or therapeutic area. The rollout includes Claude Code, Anthropic’s software development toolset, which BMS engineering and data science teams will use to build and standardize internal AI capabilities.

BMS said the deployment is focused on accelerating software engineering, embedding AI-driven workflows into drug development, and connecting Claude to internal scientific, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, and commercial data systems.

Across research and early development, Claude will be applied to proprietary scientific and molecular datasets spanning oncology, hematology, neuroscience, and immunology, with the aim of supporting target identification and optimization. In development operations, the platform is expected to assist with clinical study reports, patient safety narratives, and regulatory documentation, with BMS citing the potential to shorten timelines between data lock and regulatory filing. Manufacturing and quality teams will use the system for investigations, CAPA documentation, and batch release workflows, while commercial and medical affairs groups will use the platform to structure field insights and healthcare professional engagement data.

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Greg Meyers, EVP and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at BMS, said the company views AI as a way to unlock value from data that has remained siloed across decades of operations. Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Head of Life Sciences at Anthropic, described the deployment as creating a unified intelligence layer capable of generating clinical study reports from trial data, surfacing internal scientific context, and tracing manufacturing deviations in real time.

Deal context

The agreement follows Anthropic’s October 2025 launch of Claude for Life Sciences, which brought Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, AbbVie, AstraZeneca, and Genmab onto the platform as inaugural enterprise clients. Large pharmaceutical companies are rapidly adopting agentic AI platforms across business operations, with other recent examples including Merck’s deployment of Google’s Gemini across its organization and AstraZeneca’s partnership with Owkin on the K Navigator Pro biopharma agentic platform . The deployment also expands BMS’s broader use of AI technologies across both enterprise operations and drug R&D. Separately from the Anthropic agreement, the company has also pursued AI-enabled discovery partnerships including collaborations with AI Proteins and insitro.


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