Whatever you can do, I can do better, IBM shares rise on Anthropic AI partnership

Shares of IBM are trading nearly 7% in Tuesday’s pre-market trading after announcing a strategic partnership with Anthropic to integrate Claude AI into IBM’s software portfolio.

The collaboration will begin with Claude’s integration into IBM’s new AI-first integrated development environment (IDE), which is currently available in private preview to select clients. IBM reported that over 6,000 early adopters within the company are already using the new IDE, achieving productivity gains averaging 45 percent.

The IDE is specifically designed for enterprise software development lifecycles, including application modernization, code generation and review, end-to-end orchestration, and security-first development processes.

As part of the partnership, IBM created and Anthropic verified a guide titled “Architecting Secure Enterprise AI Agents with MCP,” which focuses on the Agent Development Lifecycle for designing and managing enterprise AI agents.