Ride-hail giant Lyft has partnered with AI startup Anthropic to build an AI assistant that handles initial intake for customer service inquiries for both

Lyft announced a new partnership with Anthropic to use the Claude AI assistant to handle customer service requests. Claude is already being put to use handling service inquiries from drivers, reducing the average resolution time for a request by 87 percent, the company said.

Ride-hailing company Lyft (LYFT) has partnered with Amazon (AMZN) and Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Alphabet (GOOGL), to introduce

The ridehailing company has incorporated Claude into its customer-facing AI assistant and reduced average customer service resolution time by 87%, the company said.

Lyft said on Thursday it has tied up with Amazon and Alphabet-backed startup Anthropic to roll out artificial intelligence tools for the ride-hailing platform's customer care operations. The company said it has been using Anthropic's Claude AI model,