Just a few hours after Anthropic's stance, OpenAI signed a similar deal with the Pentagon, effectively announcing that they were willing to forgo extremely basic AI safety guardrails if it meant securing a lucrative government contract.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude and OpenAI's chief rival, pushed back against the Department of War over using their technology for fully autonomous armed drones and mass surveillance.

OpenAI countered Anthropic's venture with a $14 billion deployment company called Deployco.

Following the Pentagon deal, many people are actively boycotting OpenAI's products and considering alternatives, with Anthropic being the biggest winner so far.

Anthropic has officially taken over OpenAI on almost every front, becoming the most powerful AI company in the world.

Anthropic abandoned its central commitment in their responsible scaling policy, which was the pledge to never train a model that they could not guarantee was safe.