Anthropic Launches $1.5 Billion AI Venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Others

Anthropic announced on Monday the creation of a new firm to help companies integrate artificial intelligence tools into their systems, backed by private equity firms Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman, and investment bank Goldman Sachs through its investment funds.

The new firm will work with companies to deploy Anthropic’s AI model Claude, which has abilities that change on a monthly or even weekly basis. General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital are also investing in the venture.

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman each committed $300 million to the new company, according to two people familiar with the deal terms. Goldman Sachs committed roughly $150 million to the new company, according to the same two people. 5 billion, including the $300 million commitments each from Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman.

The new firm will integrate Claude at portfolio companies of Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman. It is designed to embed Anthropic’s engineers and models into mid-size businesses. Blackstone President and COO Jon Gray said the firm aims to break down one of the most significant bottlenecks to enterprise AI adoption, namely the scarcity of engineers who can implement frontier AI systems at speed.

Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said enterprise demand for Claude is outpacing any single delivery model and this new firm brings additional operating capability to the ecosystem. Goldman Sachs’ Marc Nachmann said the venture would help democratize access to forward-deployed engineers for companies that currently can’t afford the talent or the consulting fees to build AI systems on their own.

The new firm is a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering resources embedded directly within its team, according to the official press release.

Anthropic announced on Monday a partnership with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to launch a new AI-native enterprise services company. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs are founding partners in the new venture. The announcement comes as rival OpenAI is pursuing a structure with TPG and Bain Capital for a new venture called The Development Company.

Bloomberg reported that OpenAI was raising $4 billion from 19 investors for The Development Company against a $10 billion valuation. Named investors in OpenAI’s venture include TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent, and Bain Capital. OpenAI announced $122 billion in new funding at the end of March against a valuation of $852 billion.

Anthropic is in the final stages of a funding round seeking $50 billion of new funding against a $900 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. Anthropic announced a joint venture on Monday focusing on deploying enterprise AI services.

Anthropic and the Pentagon are in federal litigation over the Defense Department’s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The Trump administration criticized Anthropic for refusing to allow the Pentagon to deploy its models without meeting the company’s ethical limits.

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