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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.

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | TechCrunch

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | TechCrunch

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.

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Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind’s CEO and founder, was also an early Anthropic investor

A chess prodigy and an actual a knight of the realm in the UK, it’s perhaps no surprise that Demis Hassabis has made some strategic moves about his exposure to AI upside. According to people familiar with the matter, the influential AI architect became an angel investor in Anthropic, currently behind many of the leading AI models, per Arena AI leaderboards.

The Nobel Prize winner’s position in the Claude creator was previously undisclosed and, per the Financial Times, highlights Hassabis’ “growing influence across the AI industry.”

Google, which bought DeepMind, the company that Hassabis cofounded and heads to this day, for a reported ~$400 million in 2014, is also a key Anthropic investor. The tech giant reportedly plans to invest up to $40 billion in the AI company as part of the mutually beneficial relationship the pair have forged, with reports that Anthropic has committed to spending $200 billion in the other direction on Google’s cloud services over the next five years.

I’m playing all sides, so I always come out on top

In addition to his financial support for Anthropic, Hassabis has also invested in a range of AI startups launched by colleagues, such as Inflection AI, a company set up by DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman (who is now CEO of Microsoft AI), as well as efforts from other collaborators, like David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence.

Hassabis also emerged as a recurring figure on the fringes of the recent Elon Musk v. Sam Altman trial, cropping up repeatedly in testimonies and court documents and appearing to live, as The Verge put it, “rent-free” in Musk’s head.

Founded in 2021, Anthropic has recently raised funding at a reported $900 billion valuation, sending it soaring ahead of competitor OpenAI.

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis emerges as early Anthropic investor

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis emerges as early Anthropic investor

The Nobel Prize winner’s position in the Claude creator was previously undisclosed and, per the Financial Times, highlights Hassabis’ “growing influence across the AI industry.”

Google, which bought DeepMind, the company that Hassabis cofounded and heads to this day, for a reported ~$400 million in 2014, is also a key Anthropic investor. The tech giant reportedly plans to invest up to $40 billion in the AI company as part of the mutually beneficial relationship the pair have forged, with reports that Anthropic has committed to spending $200 billion in the other direction on Google’s cloud services over the next five years.

I’m playing all sides, so I always come out on top

In addition to his financial support for Anthropic, Hassabis has also invested in a range of AI startups launched by colleagues, such as Inflection AI, a company set up by DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman (who is now CEO of Microsoft AI), as well as efforts from other collaborators, like David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence.

Hassabis also emerged as a recurring figure on the fringes of the recent Elon Musk v. Sam Altman trial, cropping up repeatedly in testimonies and court documents and appearing to live, as The Verge put it, “rent-free” in Musk’s head.

Founded in 2021, Anthropic has recently raised funding at a reported $900 billion valuation, sending it soaring ahead of competitor OpenAI.

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