New Delhi, May 6 -- Competition between OpenAI and Anthropic, the two most prominent artificial intelligence start-ups, is intensifying as they race to expand relationships with major financial institutions.

San Francisco-based Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI assistant that rivals OpenAI's widely used ChatGPT, is launching a slate of new AI agent offerings for banks, investment managers, and insurers.

The agents are meant to help those companies' employees build presentations, synthesize webs of data sets and filings, build financial models, and complete other tasks, Anthropic said on Tuesday.

Anthropic announced the new agents one day after it said it would partner with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and private-equity firm Hellman &...