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Anthropic nears $1.5 billion AI joint venture with Wall Street firms, WSJ reports

The venture would sell Claude to portfolio companies and help integrate the AI tools, with Goldman Sachs expected to invest about $150 million.

  • On Sunday, Anthropic announced plans for a $1.5 billion joint venture with Wall Street firms, aiming to market AI tools to private equity-backed companies, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  • This new entity will function as a consulting arm for Anthropic, helping portfolio companies integrate artificial intelligence into their business operations.
  • Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are expected to contribute approximately $300 million each, while Goldman Sachs and General Atlantic are also participating in the deal.
  • Flagging Anthropic's Claude models as a supply chain risk, the Pentagon recently initiated discussions about phasing out their usage over coming months.
  • Officials stated that some "exceptions" could be granted for Claude based on integration complexities, though Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and General Atlantic have not commented.
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In partnership with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs, Anthropic, developer of Chatbot Claude, announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence integrative company (IA) focused on medium-sized enterprises. The company, whose name has not yet been revealed, will incorporate Claude into the main business operations of the companies owned by the asset managers that support it, as well as those that do not belong to those manag…

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aiweekly.co broke the news on Monday, May 4, 2026.
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