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Anthropic steps up enterprise AX with Ode joint venture, focusing on deployment over models

Anthropic has set up a joint venture, Ode, with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs to handle enterprise AI adoption and deployment. The move reflects a view that better models alone are not enough to win corporate customers. Ode was conceived by Blackstone and acquired Fractional AI soon after launch, after which Fractional AI ended cooperation with OpenAI. Ode now has 100 engineers working with Anthropic’s applied AI team.