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AI giant Anthropic is teaming up with some of Wall Street's biggest companies.

On Monday, Anthropic announced a new joint venture with the likes of Blackstone and Goldman Sachs.

The new consulting business will deploy Anthropic's tools across their investment portfolios, and some are saying this could speed up the adoption of AI all around.

Ryan McMurrow is our West Coast finance correspondent.

He's been covering this story for us in San Francisco.

Hi, Ryan.

Hi there.

Thanks for having me on.

Good to have you.

So tell me more about this joint venture that Anthropic has announced.

Right.

So you got Blackstone and Goldman Sachs basically going in and sending engineers to spread the gospel of AI to software companies that they have a huge stake in.

What's the big idea here for both private equity and Anthropic?

Yeah.

Speaking of OpenAI, where are they during all this?

Ryan, earlier this year, Anthropic released a new platform called Cloud Code, and it triggered a huge sell-off in the stock market.

What kind of ripple effects are you expecting from this most recent announcement?

Do you think generally this will actually speed up the adoption of AI in the workplace?