Anthropic announced Monday it has partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to launch a new AI-native enterprise services company, putting the Claude maker in direct competition with the world’s largest consulting firms. The venture, backed by approximately $1.5 billion in committed capital, is designed to embed Anthropic’s engineers and models into the core operations of mid-size businesses. The new firm is a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering resources embedded directly within its team. Alongside the three founding partners, the joint venture has drawn backing from General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, and Sequoia Capital. Blackstone President and COO Jon Gray said the firm aims to break down “one of the most significant bottlenecks to enterprise AI adoption.” Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao stated, “Enterprise demand for Claude is significantly outpacing any single delivery model.” Goldman Sachs’ Marc Nachmann added the venture would help “democratize access to forward-deployed engineers.”