Anthropic is providing Claude to the US authorities for simply $1

The AI wars roll on — this time with Anthropic stepping proper in behind OpenAI by providing its Claude chatbot to the federal authorities for the discount value of simply $1 a yr.

The San Francisco–primarily based firm turns into the most recent AI participant to pitch its flagship LLM to Washington, a transfer extensively seen as a bid to win favor with President Donald Trump’s administration. The announcement on Tuesday comes lower than every week after OpenAI revealed an almost equivalent deal, making ChatGPT obtainable to the Basic Providers Administration for a similar token price.

In response to the Monetary Occasions, the Claude settlement clearly states that federal companies aren’t obligated to make use of the chatbot in any respect. Even when they do, Claude’s use will likely be restricted to delicate however unclassified work.

Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have solely not too long ago been cleared to provide their chatbots to the US authorities. In response to the Monetary Occasions, Google is already engaged on the same association to supply its Gemini AI to federal companies at a steeply discounted charge.

Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service — which oversees procurement for US companies — instructed the FT that the objective is easy: “get widespread adoption [of AI tools] within the federal authorities.”

To date, a number of federal companies have already begun experimenting with AI instruments. The Pentagon has awarded $200 million in contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI. Wired has additionally reported on AI getting used inside companies just like the GSA and HUD to establish redundant federal rules, although based on their reporting, the outcomes have been, at greatest, blended.

Gruenbaum instructed the Monetary Occasions that the federal government has no official desire for one AI supplier over one other. Nonetheless, it’s price noting that President Trump has made it clear the White Home will refuse to do enterprise with what it calls “woke AI” — a label utilized to any chatbot it deems to be pushing “partisan bias or ideological agendas.”

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s mum or dad firm, in April filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in coaching and working its AI methods.