Anthropic, Palantir Technologies, and AWS recently announced partnership to provide US intelligence and defense agencies with Claude 3 and 3.5 models, integrated within Palantir’s AI Platform (AIP) and supported by AWS. With this, the trio looks to enable rapid data analysis, improved pattern recognition, and enhanced document review to support critical government functions.
Dave Levy, VP of worldwide public sector at AWS said that they are excited to partner with Anthropic and Palantir and offer new generative AI capabilities that will drive innovation across the public sector.
A few months ago, Levy, in conversation with AIM, said, “We’re convinced that responsibility drives trust, and trust drives adoption, and adoption drives innovation,” underscoring AWS’s deep-rooted commitment to security and responsible innovation. This principle is reflected in their strategic collaboration aimed at enhancing generative AI capabilities for US defense and intelligence operations.
“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,” said Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir.
Palantir will be the first industry partner to bring Claude models to classified environments for U.S. government intelligence and defense operations.
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This collaboration leverages Palantir’s IL6-accredited AIP and AWS’s SageMaker for highly secure, agile, and efficient AI deployment. Both Palantir and AWS have received the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) IL6 accreditation, which demands some of the highest information security standards.
“Access to Claude 3 and Claude 3.5 within Palantir AI platform on AWS will equip US defense and intelligence organisations with powerful AI tools that can rapidly process and analyse vast amounts of complex data. This will dramatically improve intelligence analysis and enable officials in their decision making processes.” said Kate Earle Jensen, head of sales and partnerships at Anthropic.
This partnership may prove beneficial, as Claude is widely regarded as one of the best AI models for programming and coding.
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The announcement comes just days after Meta announced the availability of Llama open source models to the US government and other private projects working towards the interests of the USA’s national security.
Moreover, newly elected President Trump’s allies have drafted an order that advocates for an unprecedented use of artificial intelligence technologies for military purposes and applications.
With Trump insisting on loosening regulations and guardrails for AI, it will be interesting to see how the ecosystem evolves, and we’re likely to come across many such partnerships in the future.
Ahead of Trump’s victory, Anthropic had announced its intent to expand access to Claude’s AI capabilities to support government initiatives. The blog post also mentions that Claude will allow ‘carefully selected government agencies’ to legally use it for intelligence operations.
“We are making Claude available for applications like combating human trafficking, rooting out international corruption, identifying covert influence campaigns, and issuing warnings of potential military activities,” said Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, on the sidelines of the AWS Summit 2024 in Washington, DC.
At the time, Amodei had emphasised the importance of responsible AI deployment, stating, “It makes democracy as a whole more effective, and if we provide them poorly, it undermines the notion of democracy.”
Meanwhile, OpenAI has yet to make similar announcements despite its cautious strategy of withholding major releases, such as GPT-5, during election periods to avoid influencing outcomes.
Now that the US election has concluded with Trump’s victory, the question remains: will OpenAI finally release GPT-5? Only time will tell. “It is critically important that the US maintains its lead in developing AI with democratic values,” said Altman, in a post on X, congratulating Trump.
