美国AI公司Anthropic以每年1美元的象征性价格向联邦政府提供其Claude聊天机器人，紧随OpenAI的步伐。此举被视为争取政府支持的策略。Anthropic、Google和OpenAI近期均获准向美国政府提供服务，Google也计划以优惠价提供Gemini AI。政府目标是推广AI工具的广泛应用，已有多个机构开始尝试，国防部已向多家AI公司授予合同。尽管政府表示对AI供应商没有偏好，但前总统特朗普明确表示将拒绝与被视为“觉醒AI”的公司合作。

AI公司Anthropic以每年1美元的低价向美国联邦政府提供其Claude聊天机器人，这是继OpenAI以相同价格向政府提供ChatGPT之后，AI领域在政府市场的一次重要动作，旨在赢得政府的青睐。

Claude聊天机器人在联邦政府的使用将受到限制，仅限于敏感但未分类的工作。Anthropic、Google和OpenAI近期均获得了向美国政府提供其聊天机器人的许可，显示出AI技术在政府部门的应用正在逐步推进。

政府机构正在积极探索AI工具的应用，例如五角大楼已向Anthropic、Google、OpenAI和xAI等公司授予了总计2亿美元的合同，部分机构如GSA和HUD也在尝试使用AI来识别冗余的联邦法规，尽管效果参差不齐。

联邦采购局专员表示，政府的目标是实现AI工具在联邦政府中的广泛采用，并且目前对AI供应商没有官方偏好。然而，前总统特朗普曾明确表示，白宫将拒绝与带有“党派偏见或意识形态议程”的“觉醒AI”合作，这可能会影响未来AI供应商的选择。

文章提到，Mashable的母公司Ziff Davis在4月份对OpenAI提起诉讼，指控其AI系统的训练和运营侵犯了Ziff Davis的版权，这反映了AI领域在知识产权和商业竞争方面存在的挑战。

The AI wars roll on — this time with Anthropic stepping right in behind OpenAI by offering its Claude chatbot to the federal government for the bargain price of just $1 a year.

The San Francisco–based company becomes the latest AI player to pitch its flagship LLM to Washington, a move widely seen as a bid to win favor with President Donald Trump’s administration. The announcement on Tuesday comes less than a week after OpenAI revealed a nearly identical deal, making ChatGPT available to the General Services Administration for the same token fee.

According to the Financial Times, the Claude agreement clearly states that federal agencies aren’t obligated to use the chatbot at all. Even if they do, Claude’s use will be limited to sensitive but unclassified work.

Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have only recently been cleared to supply their chatbots to the US government. According to the Financial Times, Google is already working on a similar arrangement to offer its Gemini AI to federal agencies at a steeply discounted rate.

Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service — which oversees procurement for US agencies — told the FT that the goal is simple: “get widespread adoption [of AI tools] in the federal government.”

So far, multiple federal agencies have already begun experimenting with AI tools. The Pentagon has awarded $200 million in contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI. Wired has also reported on AI being used inside agencies like the GSA and HUD to identify redundant federal regulations, though according to their reporting, the results have been, at best, mixed.

Gruenbaum told the Financial Times that the government has no official preference for one AI provider over another. Still, it’s worth noting that President Trump has made it clear the White House will refuse to do business with what it calls "woke AI" — a label applied to any chatbot it deems to be pushing "partisan bias or ideological agendas."

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Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.