VC warns PwC, Accenture: deploying OpenAI, Anthropic is letting the fox in the hen house
Chamath Palihapitiya says consulting giants are helping OpenAI and Anthropic build the firms that may replace them.Chamath Palihapitiya says consulting giants like PwC and Accenture are endangering their own businesses by directly embedding OpenAI or Anthropic tools without maintaining control over token generation.OpenAI launched the OpenAI Deployment Company with over $4 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation, while Anthropic raised $1.5 billion for a rival enterprise services venture — both directly competing with traditional consulting firms.Palihapitiyas own firm, 8090, has partnered with EY on an AI-native software delivery platform called EY.ai PDLC, which he says gives consultants the “control plane” needed to route AI tokens to any model provider. Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya issued a stark warning to the consulting industry on May 17, calling out PwC and Accenture by name for what he describes as a self-defeating AI strategy — one that he says hands OpenAI and Anthropic the keys to their own replacement. If you are running a consulting business and you are deploying Anthropic or OpenAI directly into your organization (Im looking at you PwC and Accenture) you are letting the fox into the hen house. “If you are running a consulting business and you are deploying