Palantir Adds an AI Company to Its Arsenal for Military and Spy Work

Further entrenching its presumption arsenic spooks’ and soldiers’ go-to supplier for artificial intelligence, Palantir connected Thursday announced that it volition beryllium adding Anthropic’s Claude models to the suite of tools it provides to U.S. quality and subject agencies.

Palantir, the Peter Thiel-founded tech institution named aft a troublesome crystal ball, has been engaged scooping up contracts with the Pentagon and striking deals with different AI developers to big their products connected Palantir unreality environments that are certified to grip classified information.

Its dominance successful the subject and quality AI space—and association with President-Elect Donald Trump—has caused the company’s worth to soar implicit the past year. In January, Palantir’s banal was trading astatine astir $16 a share. The worth had risen to much than $40 a stock by the extremity of October and past received a large bump to astir $55 aft Trump won the statesmanlike predetermination this week.

In May, the institution landed a $480 cardinal deal to enactment connected an AI-powered force recognition and targeting strategy prototype called Maven Smart System for the U.S. Army.

In August, it announced it would beryllium providing Microsoft’s ample connection models connected the Palantir AI Platform to subject and quality customers. Now Anthropic has joined the party.

“Our concern with Anthropic and [Amazon Web Services] provides U.S. defence and quality communities the instrumentality concatenation they request to harness and deploy AI models securely, bringing the adjacent procreation of determination vantage to their astir captious missions,” Palantir main exertion serviceman Shyam Sankar said successful a statement.

Palantir said that Pentagon agencies volition beryllium capable to usage the Claude 3 and 3.5 models for “processing immense amounts of analyzable information rapidly,” “streamlining papers reappraisal and preparation,” and making “informed decisions successful time-sensitive situations portion preserving their decision-making authorities.”

What sorts of time-sensitive decisions those volition beryllium and however intimately they volition beryllium connected to sidesplitting radical is unclear. While each different national agencies are required to publically disclose however they usage their assorted AI systems, the Department of Defense and quality agencies are exempt from those rules, which President-elect Donald Trump’s medication may scrap anyway.

In June, Anthropic announced that it was expanding authorities agencies’ entree to its products and would beryllium unfastened to granting immoderate of those agencies exemptions from its wide usage policies. Those exemptions would “allow Claude to beryllium utilized for legally authorized overseas quality analysis, specified arsenic combating quality trafficking, identifying covert power oregon sabotage campaigns, and providing informing successful beforehand of imaginable subject activities.”

However, Anthropic said it wasn’t consenting to waive rules prohibiting the usage of its tools for disinformation campaigns, the plan oregon usage of weapons, censorship, oregon malicious cyber operations.