Anthropic has reportedly sued the federal agency over the government’s decision to label it as a “supply chain risk”. With this, the standoff between the two entities has taken a more intensified turn.
Anthropic called the Trump administration’s tag on it “unlawful,” arguing the President’s order for federal agencies to stop using its AI is “unsound”, CNN reported on Monday.
For now, Anthropic has neither confirmed nor denied these media reports.
Here’s where the Anthropic-Pentagon situation stands
Earlier this month, Anthropic walked out of a potential $200 million deal with the U.S. department of war claiming that the agency kept pushing for an unrestricted access to its AI technology.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, at the time, had expressed concerns around the excessive use of AI in weaponry and war, that could eliminate the human factor from the decision making ecosystem.
After Anthropic’s walk off from the deal, President Trump called the AI firm a “supply chain risk”. The CNN report said that this tag is often given to companies that are identified to be linked to foreign adversaries.
Anthropic is concerned that this label could negatively impact its future prospects of collaborating with government projects.
Last weeks, reports citing people familiar with the matter claimed that Anthropic has re-opened discussions with the Pentagon on a possible AI deal.
Details on the development remain awaited for now.
Anthropic, headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 2021. At present, its large language model called Claude is among popular generative AI platforms competing with the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok among others.