Palantir As the clash between the artificial intelligence startup and the Department of Defense unfolds, the company is still using Anthropic’s Claude, CEO Alex Karp told CNBC on Thursday.
“The Department of the Army has a plan to phase out Anthropic, but it is not being phased out at this time,” Karp told CNBC’s Seema Modi at Palantir’s AIPcon 9 in Maryland. “Our product is integrated with Anthropic and may be integrated with other large language models in the future.”
As CNBC previously reported, the Pentagon formally designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk last week, but is still using the Claude model to support the Iran war.
Anthropic sued the Trump administration on Monday to revoke its supply chain risk designation and is seeking an end to the Pentagon action.
This is Palantir’s first comment since the Pentagon designation. Anthropic and Palantir team up Amazon Web services supporting the Department of Defense in 2024.
Other defense technology companies have told employees to stop using Claude as the conflict continues. lockheed martin.
Emile Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, told CNBC on Thursday that it will take time for the government to transition away from Anthropic’s model.
“You can’t get rid of deeply embedded systems overnight,” Michael said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
In late February, President Donald Trump slammed Anthropic in a post on Truth Social, calling its staff “a left-wing crazy job.” In his post, President Trump said federal agencies would have a six-month period to phase out the company’s products.
An internal Pentagon memo sent last week by Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davis said use of Anthropic’s tools could continue beyond six months if deemed critical to national security.
The memo, first reported Tuesday by CBS News, told senior leadership that exemptions would be considered for “mission-critical activities” in rare circumstances where “no viable alternative exists.”
“If there’s a conflict in six months’ time and we’re doing sensitive operations that need to continue, obviously we’ll make exceptions so that we don’t jeopardize current operations,” Michael said Thursday. “But otherwise it is scheduled for six months.”
