Anthropic announced the formation of a $1.5 billion enterprise services joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and other major financial firms, designed to embed Anthropic engineers directly into mid-size businesses to implement Claude-powered AI systems. The venture is the most significant move yet by a frontier AI lab into the traditional consulting market and signals that Anthropic, like OpenAI, has concluded that enterprise AI adoption is bottlenecked more by deployment expertise than by model capability.