AI Due Diligence

Anthropic is launching a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to build an AI consulting and implementation firm targeting enterprise clients. The four founding partners are each committing capital—Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman at roughly $300 million each, with Goldman Sachs contributing approximately $150 million—while a consortium of major asset managers including Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, Leonard Green, GIC, and Sequoia Capital provide the remainder. The unnamed venture will embed Anthropic's Claude AI models directly into portfolio companies, develop standardized transformation playbooks, and integrate AI agents into existing business workflows.