Blackstone

Anthropic partnered with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone and others on a $1.5 billion AI venture targeting private equity-owned firms. This massive investment aims to deepen Anthropic's enterprise AI market position against intensifying competition from OpenAI.

Blackstone president Jon Gray addressed record redemptions from the world's largest private credit fund, attributing them to market 'noise' rather than underlying asset quality. The redemptions highlight liquidity concerns in private credit markets amid broader economic uncertainty.