Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic Claude remains available to vulnerable customers

Businesses and startups that use Anthropic Claude through Microsoft and Google products do not have to fear that the brand will be taken away from their reach, Microsoft and Google confirmed to TechCrunch. AWS customers and partners can too he says continue to use Claude for their non-security services.

Microsoft was the first technology company to confirm that Anthropic models would remain available to its customers even as Trump’s Department of Defense – known as the Department of Defense – escalated its dispute with Anthropic.

Department of Defense officially appointed The launch of American AI as a threat to the supply chain on Thursday after the AI ​​company refused to give it access to its technology for applications that the company said its AI could not effectively support, such as mass surveillance and autonomous vehicles.

Supply Chain Risk Risk is usually reserved for external adversaries. For Anthropic, this designation means that the Pentagon will no longer be able to use the company’s products once Claude changes his methods. It also requires any company or organization that works with the Pentagon to ensure that they do not use Anthropic models, either. Anthropic He has promised to fight against this name to the court.

Microsoft sells a number of products, from Office to its cloud, to many government agencies, including the Department of Defense. A Microsoft spokesperson said the company will continue to make Anthropic models available within its own products and for Microsoft customers.

“Our attorneys have learned about this name and have confirmed that Anthropic products, including Claude, will be available to our customers – with the exception of the Department of Defense – through platforms such as M365, GitHub, and Microsoft’s AI Foundry, and that we can continue to work with Anthropic on non-defense related projects,” the spokesperson said in an email. Price CNBC first report on comments.

Google, which sells cloud computing, AI, and infrastructure for federal agencies, has confirmed that it will continue to make Claude available to its customers.

“We understand that Determination does not prevent us from working with Anthropic on non-security related projects, and their products remain available through our platforms, such as Google Cloud,” said Google.

Also CNBC report that AWS customers and partners can continue to use Claude for their non-secure services.

This is similar to what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in his speech in which he vowed to fight for the nomination.

“In relation to our customers, it only applies to the use of Claude by customers as a direct part of agreement with the Department of War, and not the use of Claude by customers who have such contracts, “Amodei said, adding that, “Even for contractors of the Department of War, the mention of threat cannot (and cannot) limit the use of Claude or business relationships with Anthropic if this does not comply with their contracts of the Department of War. “

Right now, Claude consumer growth has continued Anthropic refused to submit to the department’s demands.