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Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Watch as Equity catches up with Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, co-founders of Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode with Anthropic acquired earlier this year to serve as the new venture’s core.

TL;DR
- Ode is a joint venture focused on embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms.
- It is backed by prominent investors including Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs.
- Ode acquired Fractional AI, an applied AI services startup, to form the core of its operations.
- The venture aims to solve the problem of enterprise AI pilots not reaching production.
- Leaders predict AI-native services will become a significant category in tech.