Tuesday, May 12, 2026

AI Deployment: PEU Sponsored


The AI deployment wars heated up in the last week with two announcements from Anthropic on May 4th and OpenAI fired back yesterday.  Who's your PEU (private equity underwriter)?  

Anthropic launched an attack with eight PEUs.  OpenAI responded with twelve.  

PEU affiliates should be nervous as these deployment efforts work their way through the ownership chain.  They likely felt something similar when initially acquired by any of the above listed PEUs.

WCAS and TPG cut 40% of our healthcare headcount when they took over my employer years ago.  Their operating model did not care about customer feedback or national quality standards.  It did prioritize owner returns and executive enrichment.

TechGods can sell crap and PEUs can scheme.  This should be quite the combination.  Who can the public turn to for help?  Sorry...

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren.  Increasingly, more are one and for that the common person suffers.