Anthropic Finalizes $1.5 Billion Joint Venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs for Enterprise AI

Anthropic announced a $1.5 billion enterprise AI joint venture on May 6, 2026, with founding partners Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman each committing $300 million alongside Anthropic's $300 million. The venture grants investors preferred sales access to their portfolio companies. OpenAI is pursuing a parallel strategy, raising $4 billion for The Development Company venture at a $10 billion valuation from 19 investors including TPG and Brookfield.

Anthropic joint venture announcement

• ▪Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture is backed by Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and Sequoia Capital
• ▪Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture was valued at $1.5 billion
• ▪Hellman & Friedman committed $300 million to Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture
• ▪Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs are founding partners in Anthropic's new enterprise AI venture
• ▪Anthropic committed $300 million to the new enterprise AI venture
• ▪Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services on May 6, 2026

OpenAI competing venture

• ▪TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent and Bain Capital are investors in OpenAI's The Development Company venture
• ▪OpenAI is raising funds for a new venture called The Development Company
• ▪OpenAI's The Development Company venture has a valuation of $10 billion
• ▪OpenAI's The Development Company venture is raising $4 billion from 19 investors

Enterprise AI deployment model

• ▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture engagements will run across mid-sized companies across industries
• ▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture investors will capture more value from resulting contracts with their portfolio companies
• ▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture will devote more engineering resources to each individual client using the forward-deployed engineer model popularized by Palantir
• ▪Anthropic's enterprise AI venture will get preferred sales access to its investors' portfolio companies

Ongoing fundraising rounds

• ▪Anthropic is in the final stages of a funding round seeking $50 billion of new funding
• ▪OpenAI's March 2026 funding round valued OpenAI at $852 billion
• ▪Anthropic's ongoing funding round values Anthropic at $900 billion
• ▪OpenAI announced $122 billion in new funding at the end of March 2026