Anthropic is getting close to a proposed $1.5 billion joint venture with leading Wall Street firms to secure funding and advance artificial intelligence capabilities, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Such collaborations are becoming increasingly common in the tech space, since high computational costs and rapid innovation cycles require strong financial backing.
This deal is expected to scale AI models, improve data centers, and support enterprise-level applications.
It is expected that the joint venture will significantly boost AI infrastructure. Advanced AI systems require massive computational resources, including high-performance GPUs and large-scale data centers.
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According to a Wall Street Journal report, Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are anchoring the deal, each expected to invest about $300 million. Goldman Sachs is set to join as a founding investor with a roughly $150 million commitment. General Atlantic and other firms are also participating, bringing the total expected investment to about $1.5 billion.
A previous report said that Anthropic was planning its own investment to back the project. The investors plan to create a company that acts as a consulting arm for Anthropic and helps teach businesses how to incorporate AI across their operations.
Meanwhile, Anthropic’s rival OpenAI has also been in talks to form a rival joint venture with private-equity firms that spreads adoption of its own AI tools. Both of these major players in the AI industry are focusing their efforts on selling AI tools to businesses and see those backed by private-equity firms as a prime target, especially since they are already focused on improving efficiency and cutting costs.
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Anthropic has recently expanded its partnership with Amazon with a new $5 billion investment. This is part of a broader agreement that will see Amazon invest a total of $25 billion in Anthropic, including an additional $20 billion tied to commercial milestones. This comes in addition to the roughly $8 billion Amazon has already committed to Anthropic.
Aside from this, Anthropic has agreed to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on Amazon Web Services (AWS), making it its primary cloud and training partner for large-scale AI workloads.
Anthropic is also looking into a public listing that could take place as soon as this year. The company’s revenue saw a huge rise with the success of its AI coding tool Claude Code.