Ode With Anthropic Makes First Acquisition to Expand Enterprise AI

blackred via Getty ImagesOde with Anthropic, the new company founded earlier this year with the aim of accelerating enterprise AI adoption, has made its first significant acquisition.The deal is for Casper Studios, a San Francisco-based AI services firm that helps businesses integrate Anthropic’s Claude models into their workflows and systems. Casper’s team will join the 100-plus engineers who were already working at Ode.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.The venture was initially revealed in May, when Anthropic said it was teaming with financial services firms Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman to accelerate the rollout of AI to businesses.The standalone company is also backed by investors, including Apollo, Sequoia Capital, Leonard Green and Partners, and General Atlantic, and in July, it gained a name when Ode with Anthropic was officially introduced.The premise behind Ode is that Anthropic experts can identify opportunities where AI can benefit businesses, and the financial firms backing it can refer companies in their portfolio as potential clients.Related:Meta AI Now Available as a Desktop App for MacOde has made clear that its aim is to help enterprises progress from AI experimentation to full-on, company-wide transformation, and said it would scale quickly to achieve this. That goal is underscored by the move for Casper.While Ode says it will tackle clients’ most complex AI challenges with custom systems, it will be left to Casper to focus on developing and evolving Anthropic products to address the thousands of other AI opportunities that typically arise in organizations.Although the acquisition was confirmed on Aug. 20, the companies have already worked together at Chicago-based Sphera, an operational intelligence platform that collates insights into risk, sustainability and safety.The alliance served as something of a blueprint for future projects, with Ode focused on building a custom internal tool to eliminate key bottlenecks by 70%, while Casper used Claude Code to develop tools that automate processes in customer support, planning and consulting.About the AuthorContributing WriterGraham Hope has worked in automotive journalism in the U.K. for 26 years, including spells as editor of leading consumer news website and weekly Auto Express and respected buying guide CarBuyer.