Anthropic strengthens US intelligence

AI start-up, Anthropic, has partnered with Amazon’s cloud provider, AWS, and big-data company, Palantir, to provide US Defense and Intelligence agencies access to its chatbot, Claude, and enhance their “analytical capabilities and operational efficiencies in vital government operations.”

Claude will be operational on the Palantir platform (which will be hosted by AWS), and will be accessible to Intelligence and Defense departments from within a highly secure, “maximum protection” environment—called Impact Level 6 (IL6)---which is reserved for systems that handle highly sensitive classified “secret” data, which is just one level away from being “top secret.”

Palantir and Amazon are just two out of a small handful of companies that have been granted a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) IL6 accreditation, which allows them to operate in such a critically secure environment. 

Access to Claude within Palantir on AWS will allow US Intelligence and Defense officials to process and analyze vast amounts of intelligence data, enabling them to make better-informed, quicker decisions (especially time-pressured ones), streamline tasks like preparing and reviewing documents, boost efficiency across departments, and prepare for time-sensitive operations and situations.