Pentagon strikes deals with 8 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic

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For the US government announcement of this deal, see: https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4475177/classified-networks-ai-agreements/

importantly, this agreement involves

eight of the world’s leading frontier artificial intelligence companies, SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle

With the claimed intention being to

deploy their advanced AI capabilities on the Department’s classified networks for lawful operational use.

CNN also noted that Anthropic is not included in this deal, though they do seem to be resuming talks with the US government regarding future AI deals.

Not included: Anthropic, which the Trump administration has blacklisted over Anthropic’s insistence that the Pentagon include certain safety guardrails for the government’s use of AI in warfare. But the White House reopened discussions with Anthropic in recent weeks after the company made significant announcements about several technology breakthroughs.

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Isn’t Microsoft just using OpenAI?

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I don’t know if Microsoft has any in house AI that would be covered under this agreement, but I would imagine they might be more on the “providing compute” side of things.

Though it would appear that Microsoft isn’t completely dependent on OpenAI.

See: Forbes: Microsoft builds its own AI model stack to reduce OpenAI Dependence.

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The US Government changed the name: It is not Department of Defense, but Department of War as can be seen in the link provided to the Pentagon website

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That’s not how that works, see: Executive Order 14347 - Wikipedia. Regardless, this is off-topic.

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Good to know the details. Thank you for clarify and apologies for not being accurate.

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