Further strengthening its position as a provider of artificial intelligence for spooks and soldiers, Palantir announced Thursday that it will add Claude Anthropic models to the suite of tools it provides to U.S. military and intelligence agencies.

Palantir, the tech company founded by Peter Thiel, named after an unsavory crystal ball, has been busy landing contracts with the Pentagon and striking deals with other artificial intelligence developers to host their products in Palantir cloud environments that are certified to manage classified information.

Its dominance in the military AI and intelligence space-and associate with President-elect Donald Trump—has caused the company’s value to increase over the past year. In January, Palantir stock was trading at about $16 a share. The value rose to more than $40 a share by the end of October and then received a major boost to around $55 after Trump won this week’s presidential election.

In May, the company landed a A $480 million deal to work on a prototype AI-powered enemy identification and targeting system called the Maven Smart System for the US military.

In August, this one announced would be providing Microsoft’s large language models on the Palantir AI platform to military and intelligence customers. Now, Anthropic has joined the party.

“Our partnership with Anthropic and (Amazon Web Services) gives the US defense and intelligence communities the toolchain they need to leverage and deploy AI models securely, bringing the next generation of decision advantages to their most critical missions ”, Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer, Palantir. said in a statement.

Palantir said Pentagon agencies will be able to use the Claude 3 and 3.5 models to “rapidly process large amounts of complex data,” “streamline document review and preparation,” and make “informed decisions in security-sensitive situations.” time while keeping their decisions. to make authorities.”

What kind of time-sensitive decisions these will be and how closely they will be related to killing people is unclear. While all other federal agencies are required to publicly disclose how they use their various AI systems, the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies are exempt from these RULES Pursuantwhich the administration of President-elect Donald Trump it can be scrapped anyway.

In June, Antropic announced that it was expanding government agencies’ access to its products and would be open to granting some of those agencies exemptions from its general usage policies. Those exemptions would allow Claude to be used for legally authorized foreign intelligence analysis, such as combating people-trafficking, identifying covert influence or sabotage campaigns, and providing advance warnings of potential military activity.

However, Anthropic said it is not willing to waive rules that prohibit the use of its tools for disinformation campaigns, the design or use of weapons, censorship or malicious cyber operations.