Anthropic has partnered with investment giants, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to form a new AI services company.

As Anthropic continues to push into the enterprise market with its AI models – it already has major partnerships with the likes of Accenture, Deloitte and PwC – this new partnership aims to reach mid-size companies that are clients of the three investment giants, and beyond.

The new company will be a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering and partnership resources embedded directly within its team.

It aims to serve as “an accelerant” in bringing AI solutions to mid-size companies. It will initially work to drive adoption across a customer base of the investment firms’ portfolio companies, and subsequently be made available to independent companies.

Applied AI engineers from Anthropic will work alongside the firm’s engineering team to identify where Claude can have the most impact, Anthropic said, and then help build custom solutions “to support customers over the long term”.

As well as the four founding partners, the new independent entity is backed by a consortium of alternative asset managers that include General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.

According to Anthropic, mid-size organisations like community banks to mid-sized manufacturers and regional health systems stand to gain from AI, but lack the in-house resources to build and run frontier deployments – something the new player aims to tackle.

“This is a rare convergence: massive market need, the unmatched AI technical capability of Anthropic, and a consortium of investors with the reach to scale fast,” said Patrick Healy, CEO at Hellman & Friedman. “The near-term value to our portfolio companies is substantial, and we are excited by the long-term potential to build the definitive enterprise AI services platform.”

“Enterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model,” said Krishna Rao, chief financial officer of Anthropic. “Our partnerships with the world’s leading systems integrators are central to how Claude reaches large enterprises. This new firm brings additional operating capability to the ecosystem and capital from leading alternative asset managers.”

“We intend to build a scaled, world-class company to deploy Anthropic’s incredible technology across a range of businesses in our portfolio and beyond,” said Jon Gray, president and COO of Blackstone. “We believe it can help break down one of the most significant bottlenecks to enterprise AI adoption by expanding the number of highly skilled implementation partners.”

“This is a compelling investment opportunity for our clients and will enable mid-market companies to deploy Anthropic’s AI solutions to drive meaningful impact in their business,” said Marc Nachmann, global head of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. “By democratising access to forward-deployed engineers, the new company can help the expansive network of portfolio companies in our Asset Management business and other companies of similar sizes accelerate AI adoption to grow and scale their operations.”

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager with over $1.3trn in assets under management. Hellman & Friedman is a major global private equity firm with $115bn billion in assets under management. Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally, with over $625bn in assets.

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