Anthropic CEO to meet with Pete Hegseth on AI model use for DoD

CNBC confirmed that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss how the military will use the startup’s AI models.

Negotiations between Anthropic and the Department of Defense have reached an impasse in recent weeks as the two organizations disagreed over the terms of use of Anthropic’s technology.

Anthropic wants assurances its models won’t be used autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans. The Department of Defense has made it clear that it wants to use Anthropic’s models without restriction “for all lawful use cases.”

As of February, Anthropic became the only AI company to deploy its models to the Department of Defense’s classified networks and provide customized models to national security customers. The company was given an award 200 million dollars We signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense last year.

axios He was the first to report the upcoming meeting between Amodei and Hegseth.

The conflict is the latest hurdle in Anthropic’s increasingly strained relationship with the Trump administration, which has openly criticized the company in recent months. The meeting between Amodei and Hegseth can help organizations reach a solution and create a path forward.

“Anthropic is committed to using edge AI to support U.S. national security,” a spokesperson said Monday, adding that the company has had “productive discussions in good faith” with the Department of Defense about “how to properly address these complex problems.”

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI researchers, and the startup is best known for developing a family of AI models called Claude. The company completed a $30 billion financing round earlier this month, bringing its valuation to $380 billion.

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