Anthropic, Goldman and others launch $1.5 billion AI venture
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026.
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Anthropical said Monday partners with private equity giants Goldman Sachs And Karataş Building a $1.5 billion firm aimed at accelerating the adoption of AI across hundreds of companies.
The new entity, formed in conjunction with San Francisco-based PE firm Hellman & Friedman, and supported by a group of asset managers Apollo and General Atlantic will use Anthropic’s Claude AI model directly within businesses, starting with companies owned by investment firms.
Executives say the effort is designed to overcome a growing bottleneck in the AI boom: the shortage of experts who can apply the technology in real-world operations.
“There is a huge shortage of people who know how to apply these tools to businesses and then transform them.” Marc Nachmann, Goldman’s head of global asset and wealth management told CNBC in an interview.
The move marks Anthropic’s latest effort to deepen its leadership in the enterprise AI market as competition from rivals including OpenAI intensifies. By pairing the latest Claude models with an established network of investor-owned companies, Anthropic is positioning itself to gain an advantage in the adoption of the technology in the mid-market.
This is a key battleground as both Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for major IPOs earlier this year.
Rather than acting as a traditional consulting firm, the as-yet-unnamed startup will embed engineers inside companies to redesign workflows and integrate artificial intelligence into core processes, Nachmann said.
“Having the model alone does not change your workflows or the way you work,” he said. “You need people who can combine technology with what’s actually happening in the industry and implement those changes.”
Wall Street Journal previously reported $1.5 billion commitment from relevant companies.
Goldman and its partners plan to use its own portfolio companies as initial testing grounds for the new platform before targeting other middle-market companies, particularly those owned by PEs, in the healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail and real estate sectors.
“We think there is a lot of value that this new asset can bring to companies to help them transform,” Nachmann said. “Obviously we’ll be using this a lot in our portfolio companies.”
