Tech titans team up to sell AI to US defense and intelligence clients
Last week, the Biden administration directed the government to “Harness the Power of AI for US National Security” in the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI.
AI companies got the message loud and clear and are moving full steam ahead to sell their AI products to the US government, fears of Skynet be damned.
Today, data-analytics platform Palantir Technologies announced that it’s teaming up with AI startup Anthropic to bring the company’s Claude AI models, already available on Palantir’s AI Platform, to Amazon’s AWS cloud-computing platform.
In a press release, Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer, said:
“Our partnership with Anthropic and AWS provides US defense and intelligence communities the tool chain they need to harness and deploy AI models securely, bringing the next generation of decision advantage to their most critical missions.”
Palantir was cofounded by venture capitalist and mentor to JD Vance Peter Thiel, and sells its data platform to several sectors of the US government, including the military and intelligence agencies. The CIA’s venture-capital firm In-Q-Tel was an early investor.
By partnering with Palantir — an established contractor who deals with sensitive national-security data — Anthropic’s Claude large language models will be able to be used in certain classified environments, including critical national-security data requiring “maximum protection.”
Just this week, Meta announced that it was making its Llama AI models available for defense and national security applications.
Today, data-analytics platform Palantir Technologies announced that it’s teaming up with AI startup Anthropic to bring the company’s Claude AI models, already available on Palantir’s AI Platform, to Amazon’s AWS cloud-computing platform.
In a press release, Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer, said:
“Our partnership with Anthropic and AWS provides US defense and intelligence communities the tool chain they need to harness and deploy AI models securely, bringing the next generation of decision advantage to their most critical missions.”
Palantir was cofounded by venture capitalist and mentor to JD Vance Peter Thiel, and sells its data platform to several sectors of the US government, including the military and intelligence agencies. The CIA’s venture-capital firm In-Q-Tel was an early investor.
By partnering with Palantir — an established contractor who deals with sensitive national-security data — Anthropic’s Claude large language models will be able to be used in certain classified environments, including critical national-security data requiring “maximum protection.”
Just this week, Meta announced that it was making its Llama AI models available for defense and national security applications.
