Claude models approved for FedRAMP High and DoD IL4/5 workloads via Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic announced that Claude models are now approved for use in FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 workloads through Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. Currently available models include Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 and Claude 3 Haiku, with Bedrock capabilities such as Agents, Guardrails, and Knowledge Bases also accessible. This authorization opens Claude to federal agencies and defense organizations handling controlled unclassified information, representing a significant expansion into the U.S. government market. Additional models including Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 4 may be added in the future.
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Anthropic makes Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet available to US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud
Anthropic has made Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet available via AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud, marking a significant expansion into government deployment. The company has crafted contractual exceptions to its general Usage Policy to permit legally authorized foreign intelligence analysis, including combating human trafficking and identifying covert influence campaigns, while maintaining restrictions on disinformation, weapons design, and malicious cyber operations. The deployment is currently limited to ASL-2 models under Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy. Anthropic also notes prior pre-release access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet was provided to the UK AI Safety Institute for pre-deployment testing.
Anthropic launches Claude Gov models for U.S. national security and classified environments
Anthropic has introduced Claude Gov, a custom set of Claude models built exclusively for U.S. national security customers operating in classified environments. The models are already deployed at the highest classification levels and feature reduced refusals on classified materials, enhanced intelligence and defense domain understanding, improved foreign language proficiency for national security use cases, and stronger cybersecurity data interpretation. The release marks a significant expansion of Anthropic's government AI strategy into sensitive national security applications.
Claude now available for purchase through GSA schedule for U.S. federal agencies
Anthropic has made Claude available through the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule, enabling all U.S. federal departments and agencies to procure Claude with pre-negotiated pricing and terms compliant with federal acquisition regulations. The move builds on existing government partnerships including national laboratory integrations, defense and intelligence workflows, and Claude Gov models for national security. The GSA listing removes procurement friction that previously slowed federal AI adoption.
Salesforce integrates Anthropic Claude models into Einstein platform via Amazon Bedrock
Salesforce has partnered with Anthropic to make Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, and Claude 3 Haiku available to Salesforce customers through Amazon Bedrock via a Bring Your Own LLM feature. The integration enables Claude to power custom AI experiences and Agentforce Agent actions across CRM use cases including sales, marketing, customer service, healthcare, and financial services. Claude models are accessible through Einstein Studio and operate within Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer for security and compliance. This expands Anthropic's enterprise distribution through a major CRM platform with a large existing customer base.
Anthropic launches Claude 3 model family: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus
Anthropic announced the Claude 3 model family on March 4, 2024, comprising three models — Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus — in ascending capability order. Claude 3 Opus claims top performance on major benchmarks including MMLU, GPQA, and GSM8K, with near-perfect recall on long-context evaluations (200K context window, 99%+ NIAH accuracy) and new multimodal vision capabilities. The release also highlights reduced unnecessary refusals, a twofold accuracy improvement over Claude 2.1, and Constitutional AI-based safety tuning. Opus and Sonnet launched immediately via claude.ai and the Claude API across 159 countries, with Haiku to follow.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet begins rollout on GitHub Copilot via Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now rolling out on GitHub Copilot, available in public preview for all Copilot Chat users in Visual Studio Code and GitHub.com. The model claims top performance on SWE-bench Verified among publicly available models and 93.7% on HumanEval. The integration runs via Amazon Bedrock's cross-region inference and reaches GitHub's community of over 100 million developers, representing a significant distribution milestone for Claude.
Anthropic launches Claude publicly with two model tiers after closed alpha
Anthropic announced the public launch of Claude on March 14, 2023, following a closed alpha with partners including Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo. The release introduced two model variants — Claude (high-performance) and Claude Instant (lighter and faster) — accessible via chat interface and API. Early partners reported Claude produced fewer harmful outputs and was more steerable than competing models, with deployments spanning education, legal tech, productivity, and search.
Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet reach general availability on Google Cloud Vertex AI
Anthropic announced general availability of Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, with Claude 3 Opus to follow in coming weeks. The deployment gives enterprise customers access to Claude models within their existing Google Cloud environment, with associated data governance and security benefits. Quora's Poe app is cited as an early adopter, reporting millions of daily messages exchanged via Claude-based bots.