During an interview with CNBC, Emil Michael stated that it is irresponsible to rely on a single partner for the Pentagon’s AI requirements, following their experience with Anthropic.
The U.S. Department of War’s Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, reportedly stated on Friday that Anthropic remains blacklisted, while calling the startup’s Mythos AI model a separate “national security moment.”
During an interview with CNBC, Michael stated that it is irresponsible to rely on a single partner for the Pentagon’s AI requirements, following their experience with Anthropic.
“I think the Mythos issue that’s being dealt with government-wide, not just at Department War, is a separate national security moment where we have to make sure that our networks are hardened up, because that model has capabilities that are particular to finding cyber vulnerabilities and patching them,” Michael said.
This comes at a time when the Department of War has announced deals with a slew of companies, including Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), SpaceX, OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Google, Amazon.com Inc.’s (AMZN) AWS, and Reflection.
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