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Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1

<p>Anthropic has <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/offering-expanded-claude-access-across-all-three-branches-of-government">announced[/url] it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-giving-chatgpt-enterprise-to-the-executive-branch-workforce-for-1-165812036.html">last week[/url]. These deals both follow the General Services Administration <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-agency-approves-openai-google-anthropic-federal-ai-vendor-list-2025-08-05/">adding OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic[/url] to a list of approved AI vendors for the federal government.</p>
<p>Similar to the OpenAI deal, Anthropic will offer access to its commercial-tier service <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-enterprise">Claude for Enterprise[/url] for a period of one year at a cost of just $1. The offer will also encompass <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.anthropic.com/solutions/government">Claude for Government[/url], which supports <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.fedramp.gov/">FedRAMP[/url] High workloads, allowing federal workers to use Claude for sensitive unclassified work. Government department or agency leadership can reach out today to gain access.</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p><a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/judge-rules-anthropics-ai-training-on-copyrighted-materials-is-fair-use-182602056.html">Anthropic[/url] is no stranger to working within the federal government. Earlier this summer, the <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/us-government-is-giving-leading-ai-companies-a-bunch-of-cash-for-military-applications-185347762.html">Department of Defense[/url] awarded Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI with deals worth up to $200 million to develop military applications.</p>
<p>The company made no larger mention of the <a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/">Trump administration's AI Action Plan[/url], or its requirement that large language models used by the federal government be &quot;free from top-down ideological bias.&quot; The <a data-i13n="cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/everyones-a-loser-in-trumps-ai-action-plan-160023247.html">tacit understanding[/url] is that these LLMs not espouse support for anything the current administration opposes. President Trump even issued an executive order decreeing that AI must not favor &quot;ideological dogmas such as DEI,&quot; in order to work with the federal government.</p>
<p>This latest deal comes as <a data-i13n="cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/xai-starts-offering-grok-to-us-government-agencies-162952893.html">AI-related companies[/url] are increasingly looking to build close relationships with policymakers and the current administration. This week, NVIDIA agreed to a <a data-i13n="cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/nvidia-may-give-us-government-a-cut-of-its-profits-to-sell-ai-chips-to-china-120003260.html">revenue-sharing agreement[/url] with the US government in order to sell its H20 AI GPUs to China. The current administration has <a data-i13n="cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-white-house-wants-federal-agencies-to-maximize-the-use-of-american-ai-123053019.html">made no secret[/url] of its wish for federal agencies to maximize their use of AI.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic-offers-its-claude-ai-model-to-the-federal-government-for-1-154217798.html?src=rss

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