The three branches of the US government generally have their own procurement processes and no agency or organisation would be obliged to use Claude under the agreement. The Claude for government product is permitted to be used by federal workers for sensitive, unclassified work.<\/p>\n
Google was also in talks with the government to offer its Gemini chatbot to federal employees on similarly cheap terms, a person familiar with the negotiations said. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The Anthropic<\/a> and OpenAI deals, which will initially last one year, highlight how industry leaders are offering ever-greater incentives as they compete for widespread adoption by the government and attempt to deepen ties to lawmakers and regulators.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerica\u2019s AI leadership requires that our government institutions have access to the most capable, secure AI tools available,\u201d said Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei. \u201cBy offering expanded Claude access across all three branches of government, we\u2019re helping the federal workforce leverage frontier AI capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n The government approved Anthropic\u2019s Claude, Google\u2019s Gemini and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT as suppliers earlier this month. It is also looking to ink deals with other \u201cfrontier\u201d AI models, such as Meta\u2019s Llama and xAI\u2019s Grok, according to a US official, as well as with smaller, bespoke artificial intelligence platforms.<\/p>\n While tech companies do not generate significant revenue from such deals, they benefit from learning which applications are most popular at different agencies.\u00a0This could lead to products being sold to other enterprise clients or fresh deals after current arrangements expire.<\/p>\n The approval of Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT comes after the White House last month vowed to stop companies whose systems exhibit \u201cpartisan bias or ideological agendas<\/a>\u201d from doing business with the US government. Trump\u2019s political allies have long accused models such as ChatGPT and Gemini of promoting liberal ideology.<\/p>\n A US official cautioned that the approval of the platforms did not preclude them from being reviewed for alleged bias in the coming months. <\/p>\n Gruenbaum also stressed that deals with OpenAI and Anthropic did not signal the government\u2019s preference for a particular model.<\/p>\n Recommended<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not picking a winner here,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s almost a market efficiency when you have that competitive tension and dynamic to make these tools accurate and truthful.\u201d<\/p>\n OpenAI and Anthropic are burning through cash at historic rates as they spend tens of billions of dollars on the computing power needed to train and run AI models and fund lucrative pay packages<\/a> amid a talent war. They are supported by soaring valuations and hordes of willing investors despite reporting huge annual losses. <\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net.jpeg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n