Jaeden Shafer

Apparently there's some reports that XAI would come in and help instead, but we really know Anthropic is just crushing it at this kind of multi-step reasoning.

All the developers use it for a reason.

And Google and OpenAI are trying to catch up, but Anthropic's the winner.

So yes, there's alternatives, but I'm sure for the Pentagon and for the Department of Defense, they're like, well, it kind of sucks to have the best AI model in America.

It's not in China.

It's not in Russia.

It's not in another country.

It's in America.

We can't use it, but we'll use the second best.

I'm sure for them, that kind of irks them the wrong way, especially considering I'm sure there's creative ways that China or other players could figure out how to use Anthropic

for their use cases maybe with you know multiple accounts and i don't know i'm sure there's like ways to be sneaky about it and so wouldn't it suck if the u.s government got forced to like the department of defense got forced to use the second best model and then let's say china figures a sneaky way to use anthropic and have the best model wouldn't wouldn't be the greatest thing

um i'm sure in their opinion so my personal opinion on this is basically department of defense yes i would like the best ai model to power the department that defends my country but at the same time i i can see where anthropic's coming from as far as mass surveillance of americans nobody really wants that why the government has those expanded controls is i mean you know well we all know the background of 9 11 and

and everything, you know, the Patriot Act and all that kind of, all the controversy and drama that comes out of that.

So personally, I'm not a huge fan of being spied on by the government, but I know it's inevitable and there's probably nothing I can do about it.

So I'm not sure if having Anthropic in the mix versus any other AM model is going to change anything drastically.

So at the end of the day, as far as the military goes, I would like the best AI model to go to the military.

But anyways, I think right now with kind of this Vercept acquisition and the Pentagon dispute, there's a lot of pressure facing these AI companies.

On the one side, you have kind of this race to consolidate talent and accelerate talent.

technical progress right so anthropic is going to with versept acquiring versept and their team they're going to get better at a lot of these computer use things but on the other hand there's a lot of friction that they're seeing right now with the government um who's trying to put those into national defense and other areas and anthropics kind of pushing back honestly this reminds me of like google had a whole a whole spat a while back it was kind of uh vogue for google and all their employees to say they didn't want to work with the department of defense and they had a big walkout i i

can't remember where they're at today but i feel like they pulled back from the from the military and then at some point they started working with them again but i think it was just kind of on their own terms because they wanted the money um so anyways it goes back and forth with a lot of these silicon valley startups but in any case it feels like we are going to see what happens in the very near future because anthropic has a deadline we'll see if they start working with the us government