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Inside the Anthropic, OpenAI Deals That Are Reshaping Wall Street

The ventures aim to secure preferred access to portfolio companies and expand enterprise sales, with OpenAI’s project reported at a $4 billion raise.

  • On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture to deploy enterprise AI services, integrating engineering teams directly with clients to build tools tailored to specific industry workflows.
  • OpenAI is simultaneously preparing The Development Company, a parallel enterprise venture designed to create new channels for AI deals by raising capital from alternative asset managers.
  • Anthropic's venture is valued at $1.5 billion with $300 million commitments each from Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman and Friedman; OpenAI's larger venture raised $4 billion from 19 investors for a $10 billion valuation.
  • Backed by Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and Sequoia Capital, the ventures employ the forward-deployed engineer model, enabling TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent, and Bain Capital to capture value from portfolio companies.
  • Both AI labs are circling potential IPOs while fundraising at a blistering pace. Anthropic recently sought $50 billion against a $900 billion valuation, following OpenAI's March announcement of $122 billion in funding against an $852 billion valuation.
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This Monday, Anthropic and OpenAI announced almost simultaneously the creation of mixed capital companies oriented to corporate AI services. It is no coincidence that it happens the same day. Russell Brandom tells TechCrunch. The two major AI laboratories in the world are using the same mechanism — a joint venture with private capital and alternative funds — to solve the same problem: to bring their models to medium-sized and large companies in …

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