Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Quick Answer
Ode, a joint venture with Anthropic, aims to replace traditional consulting with embedded AI engineers in enterprises.
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Ode, a joint venture with Anthropic, aims to replace traditional consulting with embedded AI engineers in enterprises. Founders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel discuss the challenges of AI pilot projects and predict a surge in AI-native services as a major tech category.
Key Points
- Ode is backed by major investors including Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs.
- The venture acquired Fractional AI to serve as its core service provider.
- Many enterprise AI pilots fail to reach production due to various challenges.
- Ode's leaders believe AI-native services will dominate the tech landscape.
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~2 min readCan 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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