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Workday's AI Blitz and Anthropic Partnership
Workday bets on agentic AI with Anthropic partnership and $1.1bn Sana acquisition.
In brief
Workday bets on agentic AI with Anthropic partnership and $1.1bn Sana acquisition. Workday launches agentic AI solutions and partners with Anthropic to boost AI capabilities. Originally reported by Cloud Wars.
Workday's AI Shift
Workday announced a major shift to agentic AI with unified data and customer choice on model deployment.
Three Key Steps
Workday recruited Gerrit Kazmaier in February 2025, acquired Sana for $1.1 billion in September 2025, and appointed Aneel Bhusri as CEO in February 2026.
Anthropic Partnership
Workday partnered with Anthropic to connect via MCP Claude’s frontier reasoning to Sana agents and HR data.
Autopilot Agents
Workday launched four Autopilot agents for payroll, finance, talent acquisition, and deployment with autonomous actions.
“Probabilistic AI is great at guessing, but in payroll and finance, a good guess isn’t good enough”
Trusted Agent Platform
Workday created headless technology for customers to build, run, and govern custom AI agents with model choice.
Decision Intelligence
Workday Decision Intelligence helps teams model scenarios using live data to compare workforce and financial trade-offs.
The big picture
Workday launches agentic AI solutions and partners with Anthropic to boost AI capabilities.
