Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months

Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios.

Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no price.

It is the second consultancy Ode has absorbed in four months. The company Anthropic built to sell AI to enterprises is growing by buying the firms that already do it.

What Ode is

TNW covered the launch in July. Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman set Ode up as a $1.5 billion venture selling AI implementation rather than models.

It sends small teams of senior engineers into large companies, works out where AI can help, then builds it. The approach is Claude-first, using Anthropic’s models where they fit and rivals where they do not.

The company runs on roughly 100 engineers, more than half of whom once founded startups. A...

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