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Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman Launch Ode, a $1.5B Enterprise AI Services Firm Built Around Claude

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Anthropic and a group of investors led by private equity giants Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman have formally launched Ode with Anthropic, a roughly $1.5 billion enterprise AI services venture betting that a small team of elite engineers can replace the work of a sprawling consulting workforce. The company, unveiled on July 15, 2026, is the operating vehicle for a joint venture first announced in May and now carries an official name and brand as it moves to embed engineers inside client companies to build and run custom AI systems.

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