Anthropic nears $1.5 billion AI joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Wall Street firms

Anthropic is finalizing a $1.5 billion joint venture with Wall Street firms including Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to sell AI tools to private-equity-backed companies. Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are each expected to invest around $300 million, with Goldman Sachs contributing about $150 million. This deal expands Anthropic's enterprise reach and further concentrates capital in frontier AI applications for private equity portfolio companies.