Goldman, Blackstone partner with Anthropic on AI services firm

Anthropic PBC is partnering with Blackstone Inc., Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to form a new company that will bring artificial intelligence to a broad group of midsize companies.

The enterprise services firm will deploy Claude into companies’ core business operations, according to a statement Monday (May 4).

Apollo Global Management Inc. is also backing the new firm along with fellow alternative asset managers General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, GIC and Sequoia Capital.

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to form partnerships that will help accelerate the deployment of AI tools they have spent billions of dollars to create. With these partnerships, the AI startups will get access to firms across health care, manufacturing, financial services, real estate, infrastructure and retail — the sectors favored for investments by private equity managers.

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The new firm will deploy AI across companies owned by the asset managers backing it, as well as firms not owned by those asset managers.

“Enterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model,” Krishna Rao, chief financial officer of Anthropic, said in the statement. “This new firm brings additional operating capability to the ecosystem and capital from leading alternative asset managers.”