Anthropic, an AI start-up, has joined forces with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to offer its Claude AI model to all branches of the federal government for $1.
This strategy echoes a similar move by competitor OpenAI earlier in the year.
The AI player will offer Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to federal civilian executive, legislative and judiciary branches. Additionally, agencies will have access to Anthropic’s frontier models with continuous updates as new capabilities are released.
It will provide technical support to agencies to integrate AI into their workflows quickly to promote modernisation and improved government productivity.
On 5 August, GSA, the government’s centralised procurement division, announced it added Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to its list of approved AI companies for use across civilian federal agencies.
“By offering expanded Claude access across all three branches of government, we’re helping the federal workforce leverage frontier AI capabilities to maintain our competitive advantage and better serve the American people,” stated Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok are also taking part in GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracting platform for use across civilian federal agencies.
The models by the AI heavyweights come with contract terms in place, which allows the federal agencies to adopt and use them at a rapid pace.
While the companies benefit from having their AI models widely available to the federal agencies, GSA stated the partnerships support US President Donald Trump’s AI action plan, designed to solidify the US’ position as the global leader in the face of competition from countries such as China.
Source: Mobile World Live
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