Anthropic teams up with Wall Street to establish an AI joint venture, with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs joining together.

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Anthropic, together with Wall Street institutions such as Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, is about to establish an AI joint venture company, with a total investment of approximately $1.5 billion.

According to the Wall Street Journal, insiders revealed that the joint venture aims to promote AI tools to private equity (PE) portfolio companies, with a related announcement expected as early as Monday.

Deal Structure

Specifically, Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman are anchor investors in this round, each contributing about $300 million; Goldman Sachs, as a founding investor, will invest about $150 million; institutions such as General Atlantic are also participating, with a total committed capital of approximately $1.5 billion.

This joint venture will act as Anthropic’s consulting agency, helping enterprises—especially portfolio companies under PE institutions—learn how to introduce AI into their operations.

AI Giants Target the PE Ecosystem

Anthropic is not the only AI company eyeing this market. Reportedly, OpenAI is also in negotiations with PE firms to establish a similar joint venture to promote its own AI tools.

The reason these two major AI giants regard PE portfolio companies as key clients is because such companies are already highly focused on efficiency improvements and cost control.

In the enterprise AI market, Anthropic is widely seen as a leader, while OpenAI is working to narrow the gap. Anthropic’s revenue has surged in recent months due to the success of its programming tool Claude Code, and the company is considering launching an IPO as early as this year.

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