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.

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

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.

A $50 billion deal integrated OpenAI's technology into Amazon Web Services, a key part of the Pentagon's digital infrastructure.