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Wipro Opens Claude-Focused AI Center in Bengaluru, to Train 10,000 Staff

June 17, 2026 at 00:34 EDT

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India's IT major Wipro Limited announced on June 16, 2026 that it has opened an "Applied AI Center of Excellence (CoE)" dedicated to Anthropic's Claude models at its innovation hub in Bengaluru, India. It also unveiled plans to train and certify 10,000 employees on Claude over the next 18 months.

June 16, 2026 · Wipro × Anthropic

Wipro Opens an Applied AI Center of Excellence for Claude in Bengaluru

The new hub anchors Wipro's "AI-Native Business & Platforms Unit," with a plan to certify 10,000 front-line specialists on Anthropic's Claude models within 18 months and embed them across client and internal platforms.

10,000

Front-line delivery experts to be certified on Claude

18 mo

Window to reach the full training scale

$1B

ai360 ecosystem commitment this CoE sits within

Ramping the talent pool

From a prior single Generative AI CoE to a target of 10,000 certified Claude specialists — built block by block over 18 months.

Today

starting base

Target 10,000

certified in 18 months

Target Sectors

Mortgage · Healthcare · Airlines
Manufacturing · Consumer

Internal Rollout

Finance · HR · Sales
embedded into the intelligence stack

How it plugs in

Claude CoE
Bengaluru hub

→

Intelligence stack
delivery · industry platforms

→

Forward Deployed Engineers
embedded at clients

WHAT'S PROMISING

Accelerates the $1B ai360 push and deepens a model-specific tie-up to differentiate from TCS and Infosys.

STILL UNPROVEN

Specific Claude versions, benchmarks and pricing were not disclosed; client cases and results will decide success.

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