Anthropic Teams Up With Blackstone, Goldman Sachs for AI Company

<p class&equals;"Body-module-scss-module&lowbar;&lowbar;z40yvW&lowbar;&lowbar;reading-column body-2 serif post-text">Anthropic is teaming up with Blackstone&comma; Hellman &amp&semi; Friedman&comma; and Goldman Sachs to form a new AI services company&period; The organization will work with mid-sized companies across sectors to bring Anthropic&&num;8217&semi;s Claude into their most important operations&period; Applied AI engineers from Anthropic will work alongside the firm’s engineering team to identify where Claude can have the most impact&comma; build custom solutions&comma; and support customers over the long term&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"Body-module-scss-module&lowbar;&lowbar;z40yvW&lowbar;&lowbar;reading-column body-2 serif post-text">Alongside the founding partners&comma; the new company is backed by a consortium of leading investment firms including General Atlantic&comma; Leonard Green&comma; Apollo Global Management&comma; GIC&comma; and Sequoia Capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"Body-module-scss-module&lowbar;&lowbar;z40yvW&lowbar;&lowbar;reading-column body-2 serif post-text">Putting Claude to work in an organization’s core operations takes hands-on engineering and deep familiarity with how each business runs&period; Systems integrators in the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;anthropic&period;com&sol;news&sol;claude-partner-network">Claude Partner Network<&sol;a> lead that work for the world’s largest enterprises today&comma; and we are continuing to invest deeply in those partnerships as Claude reaches more customers&period; This new firm extends that delivery capacity further&period; Companies from community banks to mid-sized manufacturers and regional health systems stand to gain from AI&comma; but lack the in-house resources to build and run frontier deployments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"Body-module-scss-module&lowbar;&lowbar;z40yvW&lowbar;&lowbar;reading-column body-2 serif post-text">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Enterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model&period; Our partnerships with the world&&num;8217&semi;s leading systems integrators are central to how Claude reaches large enterprises&comma;” said Krishna Rao&comma; Chief Financial Officer of Anthropic&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This new firm brings additional operating capability to the ecosystem and capital from leading alternative asset managers&period; We are proud to build it alongside Blackstone&comma; Hellman &amp&semi; Friedman&comma; Goldman Sachs&comma; and our other partners&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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