Anthropic Taps Accenture’s Faculty for Embedded AI Model Evaluation

On September 18, 2026, Anthropic announced a partnership with Accenture for independent evaluation of advanced AI models, with each company investing at least $1 billion over five years. The Faculty unit will lead the work, covering model evaluation, red-teaming, alignment checks, and safeguards.

• Each side to invest at least $1 billion over five years
• Embedded evaluators get employee-level access to models and processes
• Evaluators can publish risk findings without Anthropic edits
• Partnership is non-exclusive; talks ongoing with METR and others