Anthropic advances $1.5 billion venture to sell AI tools to private-equity companies

Anthropic is close to forming a $1.5 billion AI venture with Blackstone (BX), Goldman Sachs (GS), Hellman & Friedman, General Atlantic, and other Wall Street companies. The planned company will sell artificial intelligence tools to businesses owned by private-equity funds. That means the first customers will likely be companies already sitting inside buyout portfolios, where...