Anthropic partners with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs in $1.5 billion push to bring Claude AI to enterprises
Anthropic announced the formation of a new AI services company in a joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs. The new company is also backed by a consortium of leading alternative asset managers including General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC and Sequoia Capital.
The San Francisco-based AI startup announced the new company in a statement on Monday, saying the new organization will work with mid-market companies across industries to ‘incorporate Claude into their most important operations.’
While Anthropic already relies on companies like Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC to distribute Claude for businesses, the new firm will target a different demographic: community banks, midsize manufacturers, and regional health systems.
“Enterprise demand for Claude significantly outpaces any single delivery model,” said Krishna Rao, Anthropic’s Chief Financial Officer. “This new firm brings additional operating capacity and capital to the ecosystem from leading alternative asset managers.”
What will the new company do?
According to Anthropic, the new venture will work directly with businesses to identify where AI can have the most impact, create custom solutions, and support them over the long term.
Companies such as community banks, mid-sized manufacturers and regional health systems are seeing significant gains from AI, but they lack the in-house resources to build and run leading-edge AI systems, the company said.
How will the new company work?
Anthropic says the new company’s typical onboarding will start with a small engineering team working directly with the customer to identify areas where Claude can have the highest impact. From there, the firm’s engineers will collaborate with Anthropic’s own Applied AI staff to create custom, Claude-powered systems tailored to the organization’s existing workflows and provide long-term support.
Anthropic gave the example of a multi-site healthcare group where the engineering team would work directly with IT staff and clinicians who currently spend hours on documentation, medical coding, prior authorizations and compliance to create tools that automate administrative burdens and save time on patient care.
“Engagements like this will happen across midsize companies across industries, each shaped by the people closest to the business,” the company wrote.
The newly formed company will also join Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, which already includes companies such as Accenture, Deloitte and PwC.
OpenAI launches new joint venture:
News of Anthropic’s new AI services company comes on the same day that a report by Bloomberg stated that OpenAI has raised $4 billion for a new joint venture that will focus on helping businesses adopt AI faster.
The new company is reportedly called The Deployment Company and has backing from 19 investors, including TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent, Bain Capital.
The deal reportedly values the new company at $10 billion. The startup is said to be majority owned and controlled by OpenAI.
