Anthropic just launched a $1.5 billion joint venture – a consulting arm in partnership with leading investors – to help large businesses learn how to incorporate AI across their organizations and operations.
Anthropic's announcement described what to expect from this new venture:
Consider a multi-site healthcare services group, like a network of physician practices. Clinicians spend hours each day on documentation, medical coding, prior authorizations, and compliance reviews. An engagement might begin with the company’s engineering team sitting down with clinicians and IT staff to build tools that fit into the workflows that staff already use. The clinicians know where time disappears in a shift and what good patient care actually requires. The company's engineers build around that knowledge, allowing clinicians to devote more time to patient care.
Not to be outdone, reporting confirmed that OpenAI is raising up to $4 billion for a joint venture with leading private equity firms, including TPG, Brookfield, and Bain. OpenAI has not announced its plans as of the time of publication, but it appears OpenAI's joint venture will look similar in scope – bringing its AI to the sprawling portfolios of its partners – to Anthropic's effort.
These announcements were made on the same day as new reporting about the Trump administration's plan to take a more active role in AI regulation.