Hellman & Friedman

Trends

• Frontier labs build services capacity to deploy into enterprises

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1. May 4

   Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman form $1.5B services firm

   The AI-native services firm, funded by Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Anthropic (~$300M each) and Goldman Sachs (~$150M), embeds Anthropic engineers with forward-deployed teams at mid-market companies; Blackstone portfolio LLM spend grew 15x in a year.