The Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic raises a question for any CTO building on a single frontier AI model: If access changed tomorrow, how hard would it be to move, and what would that actually involve?
Axios reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to meet over the Department of Defense’s (DoD) use of Anthropic’s Claude.
DoD frustration
The DoD is frustrated over the restrictions Anthropic has placed on its use of Claude. However, Anthropic says it will…

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