Google says Anthropic remains available outside of defense projects
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd at Google’s annual I/O developers conference on May 20, 2025 in Mountain View, California.
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Google He said Anthropic will continue to offer its AI technology to customers day after day, except for defense businesses. Microsoft made a similar statement to customers.
The announcements from two of the three leading cloud infrastructure providers come after the Department of Defense officially identified Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
“We understand that stability does not preclude us from working with Anthropic on non-defense-related projects and that its products will continue to be available through our platforms such as Google Cloud,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement Friday. he said.
AmazonThe leader of the public cloud still has not commented on the issue.
Anthropic’s Claude models are available on Google Cloud through the Vertex AI platform. The search giant is also a major financial backer of Anthropic, and in January 2025 agreed to invest an additional $1 billion on top of its previous $2 billion stake.
Anthropic uses Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure to train its models and recently expanded its partnership by providing access to up to 1 million of Google’s custom tensor processing units (TPUs).
After Anthropic refused to agree to terms of use requested by the Department of Defense last week, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using the company’s technology and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said their work with Anthropic would end within six months. CNBC has confirmed that Anthropic models were used in the latest US attack on Iran.
Some defense technology companies have told employees to stop using Anthropic’s Claude models and switch to alternatives, including rival OpenAI.
Microsoft became the first major partner to say it would continue working with Anthropic after the Pentagon’s actions.
“Our attorneys reviewed the assignment and concluded that Anthropic products, including Claude, may be made available to our customers outside the War Department,” Microsoft said in a statement late Thursday. he said.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that his company had no choice but to challenge the supply chain risk definition in court.
— CNBC’s Jordan Novet contributed to this report.
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