Anthropic and OpenAI have leaned heavily into serving businesses with AI agents that automate white collar tasks and software that helps businesses manage these agents . The two AI developers are even competing to sign up private equity firms to create joint ventures that would sell AI to the PE firms’ portfolio companies, my colleagues scooped last week . But Palantir, a 22-year-old software firm, is arguably in a better position to deliver AI agents and related software to businesses.