Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026.
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Anthropic announced Monday it is partnering with a private equity giant. goldman sachs and black stone Launching a $1.5 billion company aimed at accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence across hundreds of companies.
The new entity was formed in conjunction with San Francisco-based PE firm Hellman & Friedman and is supported by a group of asset managers including: apollo General Atlantic and General Atlantic plan to deploy Anthropic’s Claude AI model directly within their companies, starting with companies owned by the investment firm.
Executives say the effort is aimed at addressing a growing bottleneck with the AI boom: a lack of experts who can implement the technology in real-world operations.
“There’s a huge shortage of people who know how to apply these tools and transform businesses,” Mark Nachman, Goldman’s global head of wealth and wealth management, told CNBC in an interview.
The move marks Anthropic’s latest effort to further deepen its lead in the enterprise AI market as competition from rivals such as OpenAI intensifies. Anthropic’s cutting-edge Claude model, combined with its built-in network of investor-owned companies, positions it well for mid-market technology adoption.
This is an important battleground as both Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for major IPOs as early as this year.
Rather than function as a traditional consulting firm, the venture (which has yet to be named) will embed engineers in-house to redesign workflows and integrate AI into core processes, Nachman said.
“Just having a model doesn’t change your workflow or how you operate,” he said. “We need people who can combine technology with what’s actually happening in the business and implement those changes.”
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported on the $1.5 billion investment from related companies.
Goldman and its partners expect to use their portfolio companies as initial testing grounds for the new platform before targeting other mid-market companies, particularly PE-owned areas in the healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail and real estate sectors.
“We think there’s a lot of value that this new organization can bring to companies by helping them transform,” Nachman said. “Obviously, we’re going to use it heavily in our portfolio companies.”
