Anthropic Nears $1.5 Billion AI Joint Venture With Wall Street Firms

(Monday May 04, 2026 @05:00PM (BeauHD) from the AI-all-the-things dept.)

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Anthropic is reportedly [1]nearing a roughly $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and other Wall Street firms to sell AI tools to private-equity-backed companies. "The investors aim to create a company that acts as a consulting arm for Anthropic and helps teach businesses -- including the private-equity firms' portfolio companies -- how to incorporate AI across their operations," reports the [2]Wall Street Journal . Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman would each invest about $300 million, while Goldman would contribute around $150 million.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/anthropic-nears-15-billion-ai-joint-venture-with-wall-street-firms-wsj-reports-2026-05-04/

[2] https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/anthropic-nears-1-5-billion-joint-venture-with-wall-street-firms-8f5448ee

Interesting (Score:5, Insightful)

by hdyoung ( 5182939 )

It might be that getting "Trumped" has caused Anthropic to turn away from government work and look for other business. Becoming the go-to AI company for Wall Street would hardly be a consolation prize. It's probably an even bigger market than defense.

Re: (Score:1)

by Iamthecheese ( 1264298 )

The only loser is the customer, for whom these PE-backed, resource starved LLMs will provide terrible service.

It's all a ploy by AI companies (Score:2)

by Albinoman ( 584294 )

Get everyone using and depending on AI, that way when it finally comes time to pay for the massive bill they can't pay for from operating at huge losses we can use the government to bail them out too! Meanwhile they'll gobble up all the electric and water and we get to foot the bill.

"joint" venture is right (Score:2)

by Pseudonymous Powers ( 4097097 )

What exactly is being proposed here? Is this saying that venture capitalists will force the companies they back to use AI tools? And the venture capitalists will get a cut of these forced sales?

I told you, we should never have left the economy sitting out overnight. That's how you get oligarchs!

This seems right up PE's ally (Score:2)

by wakeboarder ( 2695839 )

Fire all the workers and hire AI, its a perfect world for them. But every time they try and get rid of workers they find out there is consequences, I doubt this time will be different.

Teaching how to incorporate AI (Score:2)

by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 )

> "The investors aim to create a company that acts as a consulting arm for Anthropic and helps teach businesses -- including the private-equity firms' portfolio companies -- how to incorporate AI across their operations

Isn't this a bit like having foxes teach chickens how to be tastier?

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