According to CoinMeta, OpenAI and Anthropic are raising $5.5 billion through a joint venture with a private equity firm to acquire engineering and consulting companies that assist clients in deploying AI. The new entity The Deployment Company of OpenAI is raising approximately $4 billion from investors, with three merger and acquisition transactions already in the later stages, and an official announcement is expected this week. Anthropic is raising a similar amount of about $1.5 billion. Both companies plan to hire hundreds of engineers and consultants through these mergers and acquisitions to directly help their corporate clients integrate AI into their workstreams.