Anthropic’s escalation – a response to OpenAI’s attempt to undercut the competition – is a strategic play meant to broaden the company’s foothold in federal AI usage.

Just a week after OpenAI offered its ChatGPT Enterprise to all US federal executive branch agencies for just $1 per year, Anthropic has made a bigger play. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced it would also provide its AI tools to government agencies for $1,

Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic to a list of approved AI vendors for the federal government.