There’s gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic - backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network - is coming for it. Anthropic and a group of investors are launching a standalone AI-native enterprise services firm for mid-sized companies to build custom Claude-powered systems for core business operations, with the new outfit set to join its Claude Partner Network. “Companies from community banks to mid-sized manufacturers and regional health systems stand to gain from AI, but lack the in-house resources to build and run frontier deployments,” Anthropic said in a press release. To give them the expertise, the AI model maker said its Applied AI engineers will work alongside the new firm’s engineers to understand customers’ operations, identify where Claude can help, and build custom systems. Anthropic did not reply to an email requesting comment.…