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On Monday, Anthropic unveiled a joint venture aimed at rolling out enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs are serving as founding partners in this new entity, which has financial backing from a consortium of venture capital firms, hedge funds, and private equity groups. These include Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and Sequoia Capital. According to the Wall Street Journal, which first broke the story, the venture is valued at $1.5 billion. This figure includes a $300 million commitment each from Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman.

The announcement arrives just as Anthropic’s main competitor prepares a similar move. Only hours before Anthropic’s news, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI is raising funds for a new venture called The Development Company, following a comparable model. OpenAI’s initiative is set to operate on a larger scale, aiming to raise $4 billion from 19 investors at a $10 billion valuation. Named backers include TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent, and Bain Capital, with no apparent overlap in investors between the OpenAI venture and Anthropic’s rival project.

The core logic behind both ventures is identical: raising capital from alternative asset managers to create new channels for enterprise AI deals. These ventures will likely receive preferential sales access to their investors’ portfolio companies, while the investors capture more value from any resulting contracts. The fresh capital will also allow more engineering resources to be dedicated to each individual client, embracing the forward-deployed engineer (FDE) model popularized by Palantir.

As Anthropic explained in its announcement: “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… Engagements like this will run across mid-sized companies across industries, each shaped by the people closest to the work.”

These new ventures emerge as both AI labs raise funds at a blistering pace while also considering possible IPOs. OpenAI announced $122 billion in new funding at the end of March, based on a valuation of $852 billion.