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Anthropic teams with Goldman, Blackstone and others on $1.5 billion AI venture targeting PE-owned firms
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty ImagesAnthropic said Monday it is partnering with private equity giants Goldman Sachs and Blackstone to launch a $1.5 billion firm aimed at speeding the adoption of artificial intelligence across hundreds of companies.The new entity, formed alongside the San Francisco-based PE firm Hellman & Friedman and backed by a group of asset managers including Apollo and General Atlantic, will deploy Anthropic's Claude AI model directly inside businesses, starting with companies owned by the investment firms.Executives say the effort is designed to tackle a growing bottleneck in the AI boom: The scarcity of experts capable of implementing the technology inside real-world operations."There's a big shortage of people who know how to apply these tools into businesses and then transform them," Marc Nachmann, Goldman's global head of asset and wealth management, told CNBC in an interview.The move marks Anthropic's latest effort to deepen its lead in the enterprise AI market as competition intensifies with rivals including OpenAI. By pairing the latest Claude models with a built-in network of investor-owned companies, Anthropic
Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services
On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs will be founding partners in the new venture, which is backed by a group of VCs, hedge funds, and private equity firms, including Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and Sequoia Capital. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported news of the partnership, reported the new venture was valued at $1.5 billion, which includes a $300 million commitment each from Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman. The announcement comes just as Anthropic’s chief rival is preparing to make a similar move. Mere hours before the Anthropic announcement, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI was raising funds for a new venture called The Development Company, along very similar lines. OpenAI’s venture would operate at a larger scale, raising $4 billion from 19 investors against a $10 billion valuation. Named investors include TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent and Bain Capital, with no apparent overlap in investment between the OpenAI venture and Anthropic’s competitor. The overall logic of the two ventures is the same, raising money from alternative asset managers to create new channels for enterprise AI deals. The ventures will presumably get
Anthropic takes shot at consulting industry in joint venture with Wall Street giants | Fortune
Anthropic announced Monday that it has partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to launch a new AI-native enterprise services company — one that puts the Claude maker in direct competition with the world’s largest consulting firms for the lucrative business of corporate AI transformation. The venture, backed by approximately $1.5 billion in committed capital, is designed to embed Anthropic’s engineers and models directly into the core operations of mid-size businesses, according to the Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The target market is enormous. For every dollar companies spend on software, they spend six on services — a ratio that has made consulting a multitrillion-dollar industry and that AI-native firms are now positioning to disrupt. Sequoia partner Julien Bek argued in April that the world’s next great company won’t sell software at all, but outcomes: legal services, financial analysis, insurance processing delivered by AI while billed like consulting. The Anthropic joint venture is essentially that thesis, capitalized and staffed. The new firm is a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering resources embedded directly within its team, according to the official press release, a structure that mirrors Palantir’s forward-deployment model and undercuts traditional consultants by combining
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