Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. The designation comes after weeks of tense negotiations between the Pentagon and Anthropic over how the US military could use the startup's AI models.
The government, the Pentagon, needs AI models. They need AI partners. This is clear, and I think Anthropic and others have said they understand that as well. I don't personally think the Pentagon should be threatening DPA against these companies. But I also think that companies that choose to work with the Pentagon, as long as it is going to comply with legal protections and the few red lines that we have in the field, I think it is important to do that.
