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Tom Reuner

by Tom Reuner

11 May 2026

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OpenAI and Anthropic are not becoming consultancies. They are trying to tackle the AI last-mile challenge

Anthropic and OpenAI have thrown down the gauntlet by announcing audacious moves backed by leading PE companies to create AI services companies to scale deployments and ultimately solve last-mile challenges. But to whom? To the IT services community to rip up their go-to-market playbooks or to the investment community to raise the pre-IPO stakes and […]

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