Anthropic introduced Tuesday that it’ll supply its synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin Claude to all three branches of the federal authorities for $1, following the same transfer by OpenAI final week.
Federal businesses within the government department, in addition to the legislative and judicial branches, may have entry to 2 totally different variations of Claude — Claude for Authorities and Claude for Enterprise, the corporate mentioned in a weblog submit.
“America’s AI leadership requires that our government institutions have access to the most capable, secure AI tools available,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei mentioned in an announcement.
“By offering expanded Claude access across all three branches of government, we’re helping the federal workforce leverage frontier AI capabilities to maintain our competitive advantage and better serve the American people,” he continued.
The announcement comes after Claude was added to the Basic Companies Administration’s authorities buying system final week, making the AI mannequin accessible for buy and use by federal businesses.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Grok’s xAI have additionally been added to the system, often known as the A number of Award Schedule.
OpenAI equally introduced final Wednesday that it was providing ChatGPT to federal businesses for $1 for the following 12 months. Axios reported Anthropic was additionally planning to make its mannequin accessible for a similar minimal value.
The push to make AI fashions simply accessible for the federal authorities follows the discharge of President Trump’s AI Motion Plan final month, which referred to as for accelerating the expertise’s adoption within the federal authorities, amongst dozens of different suggestions.