Pentagon Tests Rival AI Models in Race to Replace Anthropic

The Pentagon is testing artificial intelligence models to see which are most favored by 25 of the department’s “power users,” as the US military races to find alternatives to Anthropic PBC’s Claude, according to a senior defense official.

Tests began at the start of March, according to the senior official, three days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk over the company’s insistence on guardrails for its technology and moved to drop it as a provider of AI tools. The company is now battling the designation in court, saying it could cost it billions of dollars ...