BLACKSTONE BUYS INTO THE AI REVOLUTION — ANTHROPIC AND OPENAI SEAL BILLION-DOLLAR PE DEALS Both Anthropic and OpenAI have quietly inked deals to form AI consulting ventures seeded by private equity giants including Blackstone and Hellman and Friedman, with Anthropic’s entity capitalized at $1.5 billion right out of the gate. The model is elegant: big PE shops get cutting-edge AI power, AI labs get cash and captive enterprise clients. Wall Street and Silicon Valley just got married in secret, and the honeymoon is already a multi-billion-dollar business. Keywords: Anthropic private equity deal, OpenAI Blackstone, AI consulting venture, PE AI investment 2026