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Key Points

  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp confirmed that Anthropic’s Claude is still being used in the company’s tools despite the startup’s blackisting by the Pentagon.
  • The Defense Department designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk last week, but is still using Claude for military operations in Iran.
  • Karp said that Palantir plans to add other large language models in the wake of the clash.

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies speaks during the Digital X event on September 07, 2021 in Cologne, Germany.

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Palantir is still using Anthropic’s Claude as the artificial intelligence startup’s clash with the Pentagon plays out, CEO Alex Karp told CNBC Thursday.

“The Department of War is planning to phase out Anthropic; currently, it’s not phased out,” Karp told CNBC’s Seema Mody at Palantir’s AIPcon 9 in Maryland. “Our products are integrated with Anthropic, and in the future, it will probably be integrated with other large language models.”

The Department of Defense officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk last week, but is still using Claude models to support the war in Iran, as CNBC previously reported.

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