Anthropic on Thursday said it is teaming up with data analytics firm Palantir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. intelligence and defense a

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

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2024-11-07 20:30:02

Anthropic on Thursday said it is teaming up with data analytics firm Palantir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude family of AI models.

The news comes as a growing number of AI vendors look to ink deals with U.S. defense customers for strategic and fiscal reasons. Meta recently revealed that it is making its Llama models available to defense partners, while OpenAI is seeking to establish a closer relationship with the U.S. Defense Department.

Anthropic’s head of sales, Kate Earle Jensen, said the company’s collaboration with Palantir and AWS will “operationalize the use of Claude” within Palantir’s platform by leveraging AWS hosting. Claude became available on Palantir’s platform earlier this month and can now be used in Palantir’s defense-accredited environment, Palantir Impact Level 6 (IL6).

The Defense Department’s IL6 is reserved for systems containing data that’s deemed critical to national security and requiring “maximum protection” against unauthorized access and tampering. Information in IL6 systems can be up to “secret” level — one step below top secret.