The AI wars roll on — this time with Anthropic stepping proper in behind OpenAI by providing its Claude chatbot to the federal authorities for the discount value of simply $1 a yr.

The San Francisco–primarily based firm turns into the most recent AI participant to pitch its flagship LLM to Washington, a transfer widely seen as a bid to win favor with President Donald Trump’s administration. The announcement on Tuesday comes lower than every week after OpenAI revealed a nearly identical deal, making ChatGPT accessible to the Basic Companies Administration for a similar token price.

According to the Financial Times, the Claude settlement clearly states that federal companies aren’t obligated to make use of the chatbot in any respect. Even when they do, Claude’s use shall be restricted to delicate however unclassified work.

Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have solely not too long ago been cleared to supply their chatbots to the US government. In accordance with the Monetary Instances, Google is already engaged on an identical association to supply its Gemini AI to federal companies at a steeply discounted price.

Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service — which oversees procurement for US companies — advised the FT that the purpose is easy: “get widespread adoption [of AI tools] within the federal authorities.”

Up to now, a number of federal companies have already begun experimenting with AI instruments. The Pentagon has awarded $200 million in contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI. Wired has also reported on AI getting used inside companies just like the GSA and HUD to determine redundant federal laws, although in line with their reporting, the outcomes have been, at finest, blended.

Gruenbaum advised the Monetary Instances that the federal government has no official choice for one AI supplier over one other. Nonetheless, it’s value noting that President Trump has made it clear the White Home will refuse to do enterprise with what it calls “woke AI” — a label utilized to any chatbot it deems to be pushing “partisan bias or ideological agendas.”

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s mother or father firm, in April filed a lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in coaching and working its AI techniques.