At IFS Industrial X Unleashed, IFS Nexus Black and Anthropic announced a partnership to accelerate and scale the impact of AI in the world’s most critical industries. IFS is launching Resolve as the first of many new IFS solutions that puts industry-specific AI directly into the hands of frontline workers to transform work and rapidly deliver value.
The partnership combines the deep industry expertise and AI talent of IFS Nexus Black, part of IFS with Anthropic’s AI capabilities and commitment to building safe, reliable AI.
“Partnering with Anthropic is about more than just their best-in-class AI models, it is also their commitment to responsible, safe AI – that’s non-negotiable when serving industries where, some days, life is on the line,” said Kriti Sharma, CEO at IFS Nexus Black. “These hardcore industries are where the real AI revolution is happening. It’s not the AI of tabloid headlines. It’s the lifeline for the workers that keep the lights on, the cupboards stocked, and the world turning.”
Resolve’s capabilities reflect the stark realities facing technicians and field workers across aerospace and defense, construction and engineering, manufacturing, energy, utilities & natural resources and telecoms. Resolve uses Claude to open up approaches that were not possible before, predicting and preventing what humans might miss: analysing thousands of equipment images, correlating sensor readings, and connecting patterns across visual inspections and operational data to catch problems before they become failures.
These industries are straining under the pressure of ageing infrastructure, lost expertise, and an increasingly unpredictable world that throws supply chains out of balance – all while facing a once in a generation increase in demands from re-industrialization and AI infrastructure build out.
They are underserved by generic and consumer-grade AI geared towards white collar workers and unsuited to asset and service-centric operations. Scalable, high-impact AI solutions designed for industrial applications are urgently needed.
“Anthropic combines frontier AI capabilities with the safety and reliability that industries require. IFS has unquestionable expertise in the complex realities of the industrial world – they have proven they can activate and apply AI in capital intensive and asset heavy environments. Together, we’re deploying AI where stakes are highest,” said Garvan Doyle, Applied AI Lead at Anthropic.
