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.
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Anthropic Offers Claude Enterprise and Government Access to All Three U.S. Government Branches for $1
Anthropic is offering Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to all three branches of the U.S. federal government — executive, legislative, and judiciary — for $1 for one year, removing cost barriers to AI adoption. The offer includes FedRAMP High-certified models, continuous frontier model updates, and technical support, accessible via existing GSA schedule procurement and infrastructure partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Palantir. Existing government deployments cited include a $200M DoD agreement, 10,000 daily users at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a DC Department of Health multilingual services deployment. Anthropic is calling on other AI companies to make similar commitments to U.S. government access.
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 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.
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 in Canada with full product suite
Anthropic expanded Claude's availability to Canada as of June 5, 2024, offering access to Claude.ai, the iOS app, the API, and the Team plan. Canadian users can subscribe to Claude Pro at CA$28/month for access to the Claude 3 model family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) with 5x usage limits. The expansion is a geographic rollout with no new technical capabilities announced.
Anthropic partners with Scale AI to bring Claude to enterprise customers
Anthropic announced a partnership with Scale AI to make Claude available to enterprise customers through Scale's deployment and management platform. Scale customers gain access to Claude alongside Scale's services including prompt engineering, model validation, enterprise-grade AWS security, and data connectors for proprietary sources. The partnership is positioned as a path for businesses to move from AI experimentation to production deployment.
Anthropic and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Bring Claude to Regulated Industries via Agentforce
Anthropic and Salesforce have announced an expanded partnership making Claude a preferred foundational model for Salesforce's Agentforce platform, with a focus on regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, cybersecurity, and life sciences. Claude operates within Salesforce's virtual private cloud trust boundary via Amazon Bedrock, making Anthropic the first LLM provider fully integrated within that boundary. The partnership also includes Salesforce deploying Claude Code across its global engineering organization, a bidirectional Slack-Claude integration via MCP server, and plans to co-develop industry-specific AI solutions starting with financial services. Early adopters include RBC Wealth Management and CrowdStrike.
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.