"We are legitimately still in the middle of all this. It's our stack that runs the LLMs. Karp says he had been in numerous discussions with all parties involved-discussions he declined to give specifics about, as he says he doesn't want to out conversations or bash people."
"Without commenting on internal dialogs, there was never a sense that these products would be used domestically. The Department of War is not planning to use these products domestically. That's a completely different kettle of fish... The terms the Department of War wants are completely focused on non-American citizens in a war context."
"Palantir has a vast business doing work for the U.S. government, including the DoD. Anthropic partnered with Palantir in 2024 to offer its AI technology to the DoD via Palantir. Anthropic also began working directly with the DoD last year to create a version of its technology designed for the Defense Department."
Palantir, a Miami-based data analytics and AI platform, operates as a key software provider for the Department of Defense and the main channel through which the DoD accesses Anthropic's large language model, Claude. CEO Alex Karp confirmed Palantir's central role in the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Defense Department, stating that Palantir's stack runs the LLMs. Karp emphasized that the Defense Department is not using AI for domestic mass surveillance on U.S. citizens and has no plans to do so. He clarified that the DoD's AI usage focuses exclusively on non-American citizens in military contexts. Anthropic partnered with Palantir in 2024 to provide AI technology to the DoD, while also developing a specialized version directly for the Defense Department.
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