Anthropic Awarded $200M DOD Agreement for AI Capabilities
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Summary
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Anthropic a $200 million agreement to prototype frontier AI capabilities for national security.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThis award opens a new chapter in Anthropic’s commitment to supporting U.S. national security, which is where our earliest federal deployments began more than a year ago.
We look forward to deepening our collaboration
Thiyagu Ramasamy, Anthropic's Head of Public Sector
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