Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Ode with Anthropic is a new joint venture focused on embedding engineers into enterprise firms to help them successfully deploy AI services. The venture aims to bridge the gap between AI pilots and production-ready applications.
Why it matters
Many enterprise AI projects fail to reach production; this model attempts to solve that by providing specialized, hands-on technical services.
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode acquired earlier this year to serve as the new venture’s core. The three discuss why so many enterprise AI pilots never make it to production and why they think AI-native services are about to become one of the biggest categories in tech.
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