On April 26, 2023, Anthropic announced a partnership with Scale, a platform for building, deploying and managing generative AI applications. Under the agreement, Scale customers will be able to use Claude, Anthropic’s conversational AI assistant developed according to principles aimed at making systems helpful, honest, and harmless.
What the partnership provides
The collaboration aims to help businesses move generative AI from experimentation into production by combining Claude with Scale’s deployment and management capabilities. Scale’s offerings for customers include:
- expert prompt engineering to refine instructions and queries,
- model validation to improve performance and uncover weaknesses,
- enterprise-grade security available through a customer’s private AWS environment,
- data connectors that enable integration of proprietary sources such as databases, Confluence, Google Drive, and Outlook so Claude can work at scale.
Why it matters
By pairing Anthropic’s Claude model and its Constitutional AI approach with Scale’s tooling, the companies say they are providing an enterprise-ready solution for organizations adopting generative AI. The partnership is intended to help users deploy these technologies responsibly and with operational support.
Executive comment
Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic, commented: “Partnering with Scale allows us to bring our useful model, Claude, to more customers in a thoughtful, scalable way. By combining Scale's AI engineering capabilities with our values-based model development approach, customers now have more assistance as they build and deploy Generative AI applications.”
Next steps
Anthropic and Scale indicated they will share further details about the collaboration over time. The announcement frames the relationship as part of a collaborative effort to expand enterprise adoption of generative AI while addressing operational, security, and data-integration needs.
