Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI
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Anthropic said Monday It works with private equity giants Goldman Sachs And Blackstone to create a $1.5 billion company aimed at accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence across hundreds of companies.
The new company was co-founded with San Francisco-based PE firm Hellman & Friedman supports from a group of asset managers including Apollo and General Atlantic will deploy Anthropic’s Claude AI model directly into companies, starting with companies owned by the investment firms.
Executives say the effort is aimed at addressing a growing bottleneck in the AI
“There is a huge shortage of people who know how to use these tools in companies and then transform them,” Marc Nachmann, Goldman’s global head of wealth and wealth management said in an interview with CNBC.
The move marks Anthropic’s latest attempt to expand its leadership position in the enterprise AI market as competition from rivals heats up OpenAI. By combining the latest Claude models with an integrated network of investor-owned companies, Anthropic is positioning itself to gain a head start in introducing the technology to the mid-market.
It’s a key battleground as both Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for massive IPOs as early as this year.
Instead of operating as a traditional consulting firm, the company – which has not yet been named – will bring engineers into companies to redesign workflows and integrate AI into core processes, Nachmann said.
“The model alone doesn’t change your workflow or the way you work,” he said. “You need people who can combine the technology with what’s actually happening in the company and implement these changes.”
The Wall Street Journal used to be reported the commitment of the companies involved amounted to 1.5 billion US dollars.
Goldman and its partners expect to use their own portfolio companies as an initial testing ground for the new platform before targeting other middle-market companies, particularly in the PE-owned universe of healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail and real estate.
“We believe this new entity can add great value to companies to help them transform,” said Nachmann. “Of course we will use it frequently with our portfolio companies.”
