Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.
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Anthropic on Tuesday announced it will offer Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to all three branches of the U.S. government for $1 per agency for a year.
It’s the latest example of how major artificial intelligence companies have been looking to deepen their ties to policymakers and regulators in recent months.
Anthropic’s competitor OpenAI announced earlier this month it will give its ChatGPT Enterprise product to U.S. federal agencies for $1 through the next year.
Anthropic said it partnered with the U.S. General Services Administration to bring its technology to participating agencies in the executive, legislative and judicial branches. The company is also offering technical support to help agencies implement its AI.
“America’s AI leadership requires that our government institutions have access to the most capable, secure AI tools available,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement.
Competition for U.S. government customers has grown fierce.
In June, Anthropic released a set of Claude Gov models that were built exclusively for U.S. national security customers.
The following month, the U.S. Department of Defense announced contract awards of up to $200 million for AI development at Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI. That same day, xAI announced Grok for Government, which is a suite of products that make the company’s models available to U.S. government customers.
OpenAI is planning to open its first office in Washington, D.C., early next year, and it launched a new offering called OpenAI for Government in June.
