After upending the coding world with Claude Code, Anthropic has a new target: financial services. The company announced on Tuesday that it's releasing 10 new AI agents catering to different types of financial work including building pitchbooks, reviewing earnings, drafting credit memos and auditing statements.

On Monday, Anthropic also launched a $1.5 billion joint venture with Wall Street heavyweights like Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman and Friedman to create an AI-native financial services firm. It plans to deploy its own engineers to help integrate its technology at the firms’ portfolio companies. The AI giant is also building an agent to help banks fight financial crimes like money laundering.

Anthropic’s focus on the financial sector began last summer with a separate tool for banks and large institutions. Now financial firms like Citi, Citadel and Goldman Sachs make up about 40% of its top 50 customers and the sector is the second largest in terms of enterprise revenue, the company said. Doubling down on the financial services market is a smart move, especially because big chunks of financial services work is repetitive, time consuming and relies on rule-based processes, thus making it easier to automate.

At an Anthropic event in New York today, CEO Dario Amodei warned that last month’s launch of Anthropic’s cyber security model Mythos has exposed thousands of vulnerabilities in software used by banks, tech firms and governments that need to be fixed within the next six to eight months before Chinese models catch up. He also raised concerns that enterprise software companies that don’t lean into AI could “lose market value, go bankrupt or completely go bust.”

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