“Ask Claude” could be the new solution for the United States military and intelligence community (IC), as data analytics firm Palantir Technologies will work with Anthropic to provide the latter’s family of large language models to its suite of tools.
Palantir, founded by tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, developed its Palantir Gotham software as a service (SaaS) intelligence and defense tool for use by military and counter-terrorism analysts. It announced week a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide U.S. defense and intelligence agencies access to the Claude 3 and 3.5 family of models and offer an integrated suite of technology to “operationalize” the use of Claude within Palantir’s AI Platform (AIP).
Go to Claude
The initial model of Claude was released in March 2023, while the Claude 3 – which can analyze images – made its debut this past March. In June, Anthropic expanded its access to the U.S. IC and via AWS GovCloud. As it has been adapted for governmental use, the partnership with Palantir further increases the ability for it to be leveraged by U.S. agencies.
“Our partnership with Anthropic and AWS provides U.S. defense and intelligence communities the tool chain they need to harness and deploy AI models securely, bringing the next generation of decision advantage to their most critical missions,” said Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer (CTO) at Palantir.
“Palantir is proud to be the first industry partner to bring Claude models to classified environments,” added Sankar. “We’ve already seen firsthand the impact of these models with AIP in the commercial sector: for example, one leading American insurer automated a significant portion of their underwriting process with 78 AI agents powered by AIP and Claude, transforming a process that once took two weeks into one that could be done in three hours. We are now providing this same asymmetric AI advantage to the U.S. government and its allies.”
Claude models are generative pre-trained transformers that can add to the analysis of large amounts of data, which can identify patterns and trends, streamline document review and preparation, and help U.S. officials make informed decisions, notably in time-sensitive situations.
“This will dramatically improve intelligence analysis and enable officials in their decision-making processes, streamline resource intensive tasks and boost operational efficiency across departments,” said Kate Earle Jensen, head of sales and partnerships at Anthropic.
The Government and AIP/LLM
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM) are likely to be increasingly embraced at all levels of society and the U.S. may have an edge, thanks to early adoption.
“The government including the DoD is trying to be at the forefront of technology which includes LLMs and Gen AI,” explained technology industry analyst Roger Entner of Recon Analytics.
“The United States’ key advantage is technological leadership,” Entner told ClearanceJobs. “If everything goes to plan, AI will make our military more efficient and lethal while reducing our casualties.”
As noted, for the military and IC, LLMs like Claude will help cull through data far quicker, and more efficiently than any human. But the tool won’t replace people; just making their jobs a bit easier to do.
“The Pentagon can use GenAI just as any business might – processing large amounts of data and generating insights,” added Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research.
While some of the data that Claude 3 and Claude 3.5 will sort through may be national security related, a lot of it will be far more mundane. The AIPs will take on routine duties; and possibly help to cut through a lot of bureaucracy in the process.
“There are mundane applications such as summarizing and automating reports, creating charts, translating languages, automating coding, etc.,” Krewell told ClearanceJobs.
Claude will take on the work that some might label a thankless job!
