Palantir still using Anthropic’s Claude amid Pentagon blacklist
palantir The AI startup is still using Anthropic’s Claude as its conflict with the Pentagon continues, CEO Alex Karp told CNBC on Thursday.
“The War Department plans to phase out Anthropic; it’s not being phased out at this time,” Karp told CNBC’s Seema Mody. Palantir’s AIPcon 9 in Maryland. “Our products integrate with Anthropic and will likely integrate with other major language models in the future.”
The Department of Defense officially designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk last week, but it is still using Claude models to support the war in Iran, as CNBC previously reported.
Anthropic sued the Trump administration on Monday to reverse its supply chain risk designation and is seeking a delay in Defense Department action.
This is Palantir’s first comment since the Pentagon’s appointment. Anthropic and Palantir formed a partnership Amazon Web Services to support Department of Defense In 2024.
Other defense technology companies have told their employees to stop using Claude while the conflict continues. LockheedMartin.
Department of Defense CTO Emil Michael told CNBC on Thursday that it will take time for the government to move away from Anthropic’s models.
“You can’t dismantle a deeply entrenched system overnight,” Michael told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
