Blackstone Inc. (NYSE:BX) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) are committing a combined $450 million to a new $1.5 billion joint venture with Anthropic that will deploy the Claude maker’s AI models directly inside mid-sized companies.
The deal, announced Monday, lands as Anthropic eyes a public listing as soon as this year.
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Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are each anchoring the deal at $300 million apiece.
Goldman Sachs is putting in $150 million, with General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC and Sequoia Capital filling out the consortium.
The new firm will embed Anthropic engineers directly inside customers to design and maintain AI deployments.
Initial target sectors include healthcare, manufacturing, financial services …
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