Anthropic launches $1.5B enterprise AI services JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman

Anthropic is forming a standalone AI-native enterprise services firm in partnership with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman, backed by $1.5 billion. Anthropic engineers will embed directly inside the new firm, which targets PE-owned portfolio companies — pairing Claude with built-in deployment expertise to compete head-on with traditional consultants. The JV is Anthropic's answer to enterprise demand that has outpaced its own delivery capacity.