GSA and Anthropic ink deal for Claude AI across all government branches

Anthropic’s leading large language model, Claude, will now be available for federal government employees across all three branches for a $1 fee.

Announced on Tuesday morning, the deal through the General Services Administration’s OneGov program enables Claude’s expansion to be available for all three branches of government and follows its addition to the GSA schedule. Two versions, Claude for Government and Claude for Enterprise, will now be available for select federal workloads. 

“As AI adoption leads to transformation across industries, we want to ensure that federal workers can fully harness these capabilities to better serve the American people,” the press release reads. “By removing cost barriers, we're enabling the government to access the same advanced AI that's already proving its value in the private sector.”

Anthropic will be actively helping the government with the adoption of Claude, offering technical support as needed. Agencies will also ...