Amazon says customers can keep using Anthropic’s Claude on its cloud for non-defense workloads
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the keynote at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Amazon It said Friday that Anthropic will continue to offer its AI technology to cloud customers, except for Department of Defense-related work.
The announcement comes after the federal agency notified Anthropic on Thursday that it would label the company a “supply chain risk.” Anthropic responded by saying it had no choice but to challenge the appointment in court.
“AWS customers and partners can continue to use Claude for all non-DoW-related workloads,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson said in a statement. “For all DoW workloads using Anthropic technologies, we support our customers and partners as they migrate to alternatives running on AWS.”
Many major tech companies have said they will remain loyal to Anthropic’s technology despite the Pentagon’s blacklisting. Microsoft Anthropic’s Claude models will continue to be available in its products, it said late Thursday. Google He made a similar statement on Friday.
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