Anthropic It reportedly plans to invest $200 million in a new venture with private equity firms.
The effort will see the artificial intelligence (AI) startup attempt to sell its tools to private equity (PE) firms as it tries to bolster its institutional client base, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) I mentioned Monday (April 6).
Blackstone, General Atlantic and Hellman and Friedman Private equity firms are among those in talks to back the project, sources familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic is in discussions to raise $1 billion for the project, a figure that includes $200 million, the sources said.
The new venture will serve as a consulting arm for Anthropic that helps companies integrate the company’s AI tools into their operations, according to the report. The Wall Street Journal story follows previous reporting from The Information about Anthropic of its efforts Recruiting PE clients.
As the Wall Street Journal notes, both Anthropic and rival OpenAI are racing toward it Claim revenue From business clients hoping to boost productivity with AI. The report added that the two companies consider themselves well-positioned to benefit from broader use of their products in workplaces in the United States.
“It was Anthropic Claude repositioned “From a conversational assistant to a tool embedded in enterprise operations,” PYMNTS wrote last month, referring to the company’s flagship AI product. As described here, the company is expanding Cloud beyond chat’ into an organization Work flow in the organizationAnd integrate the model into coding, document analysis, and business process automation.”
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OpenAI is also reportedly working on a A joint venture worth $10 billion With private equity firms to expand the use of their AI tools. Company It reappointed its chief operating officer To work on this effort.
The Wall Street Journal report also points this out Ransom SimoA senior OpenAI executive wrote in a social media post
Late last year, PYMNTS wrote about the way private equity firms are faring Employing artificial intelligence within its own operations, testing whether it can improve forecasting and identify risks early.
“This shift indicates that AI is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operational requirement,” this report said.
The report continued that this development appears most clearly in the early stages of investment work. For example, a Boston-based PE firm BayPine It began integrating AI into its investment and operational workflow.
“Ensuring value is created from data and AI at the beginning significantly increases the likelihood of successful implementation during the ownership period.” Korea. Evespartner and head of portfolio operations at BayPine, wrote in a June Private Markets Insights report.
