Palantir (PLTR) CEO Alex Karp said his company is still using Anthropic (ANTHRO) AI models, despite the technology being blacklisted by the Pentagon.
“The Department of War is planning to phase out Anthropic; currently, it’s not phased out,” Karp told CNBC on Thursday. “Our products are integrated with Anthropic, and in the future, it will probably be integrated with other large language models.”
Earlier this month, the Trump administration ordered government agencies and contractors to phase out use of Anthropic products, deeming the company a “supply chain risk” after it failed to come to an agreement with the Pentagon over the use of its technology. Anthropic has since sued to have the designation overturned.
CNBC noted that despite the designation, the Pentagon has been using Anthropic’s Claude models in military operations against Iran.
Anthropic is backed by Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL).