Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed OpenAI launched the "OpenAI Deployment Company" in mid-May 2026 — a joint venture reported to have opened with more than $4bn in committed backing and a valuation of roughly $14bn. Treat those as two distinct numbers, not one. It bought Tomoro, an applied-AI consultancy based in Edinburgh and London, founded in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI, bringing around 150 Forward Deployed Engineers in one stroke. Anthropic moved in parallel, making the first acquisition for its own enterprise consulting venture by taking San Francisco-based Fractional AI as the operational foundation. The strategic read: the labs are absorbing the AI-services layer — a Palantir-style Forward-Deployed model — and stepping onto territory long owned by systems integrators and consultancies in India, the UK…
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