The Pentagon is working to develop alternatives to anthropology, the report says

After their dramatic falling out, Anthropic and Pentagon don’t seem to be getting back together.

Instead, the Pentagon is building tools to replace Anthropic’s AI, according to a Bloomberg conversation with Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer.

“The Ministry is actively seeking several LLM degrees in appropriate government-owned environments,” he said. “Engineering work on these programs has begun, and we expect them to be available for operational use very soon.”

Anthropic’s $200 million contract with the Department of Defense (DOD) collapsed over the past few weeks after the two parties failed to reach an agreement on how much unfettered access the military would have to Anthropic’s artificial intelligence.

While Anthropic sought to include a contractual clause prohibiting the Pentagon from using its artificial intelligence for mass surveillance of Americans, or deploying weapons that can fire without human intervention, the Pentagon did not budge. Instead, OpenAI swooped in and made its own deal with the Pentagon. The Department of Defense — known under the Trump administration as the War Department — also signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s xAI to use Grok in classified systems.

It makes sense, then, that the Pentagon would work to take anthropic technology out of its workflow. While some reports said there was a slight possibility that Anthropic would reconcile with the Pentagon, this news suggests that the government is preparing to move forward without it.

In fact, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, a designation usually reserved for foreign adversaries, which prevents companies that work with the Pentagon from working with Anthropic as well. Anthropic challenges this classification in court.