The deal, announced Monday, lands as Anthropic eyes a public listing as soon as this year.<\/p>\n
Spending On Large Language Models Up 15-Fold<\/p>\n
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are each anchoring the deal<\/a> at $300 million apiece. <\/p>\n Goldman Sachs is putting in $150 million, with General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC and Sequoia Capital filling out the consortium.<\/p>\n The new firm will embed Anthropic engineers directly inside customers to design and maintain AI deployments. <\/p>\n Blackstone President Jon Gray told<\/a> CNBC his firm\u2019s 275 portfolio companies grew their large language model spending 15-fold over the past year. <\/p>\n The challenge is now one of diffusion, he said, comparing it to medical research that has to make the leap \u201cfrom the beaker to the bedside.\u201d<\/p>\n OpenAI is reportedly building a competing private-equity venture of its own.<\/p>\n Prediction Markets Favor Anthropic In The IPO Race<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s annualized revenue has surged from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to over $30 billion by early April, fueled by its coding tool Claude Code. <\/p>\n The AI lab is reportedly in late-stage talks on a roughly $50 billion fundraise at a $900 billion valuation, more than double its $380 billion February mark.<\/p>\n Polymarket gives Anthropic a 68% chance<\/a> of beating OpenAI to the public markets. <\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s own contract<\/a> sits at 66% No IPO by December 31.<\/p>\n Traders are skeptical of any near-term timing, however. <\/p>\n The Anthropic IPO closing market cap prices<\/a> a 98% probability of no listing by June 30, 2026, on over $1 million in volume.<\/p>\n Image: Shutterstock<\/p>\n