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.
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Anthropic introduces computer use capability, upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic announced three major developments: an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with significant coding improvements (SWE-bench Verified rising from 33.4% to 49.0%, surpassing all publicly available models including reasoning models), a new Claude 3.5 Haiku that matches Claude 3 Opus performance at Haiku-tier speed, and a public beta of 'computer use' — a capability allowing Claude to control computers by viewing screens, moving cursors, clicking, and typing. Computer use is available via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI, with early adopters including Replit, The Browser Company, and Cognition. Both safety institutes (US AISI and UK AISI) conducted pre-deployment testing, and the model was assessed as remaining within ASL-2 under Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy.
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.
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 partners with U.S. National Labs for 1,000 Scientist AI Jam evaluating Claude on scientific tasks
Anthropic is participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's first 1,000 Scientist AI Jam, bringing together scientists across multiple National Laboratories to evaluate frontier AI models on scientific research and national security applications. Claude 3.7 Sonnet, recently launched as the first hybrid reasoning model, will be a primary subject of evaluation across tasks including hypothesis generation, experiment planning, code generation, and result analysis. This builds on Anthropic's April 2024 collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was the first instance of a frontier lab evaluating a model in a Top Secret classified environment. The partnership signals deepening government-industry collaboration on AI for scientific discovery and national security.
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 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 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.
Anthropic enables fine-tuning of Claude 3 Haiku via Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic announced that Claude 3 Haiku can now be fine-tuned through Amazon Bedrock using custom prompt-completion pairs, with general availability reached November 1, 2024. The capability targets specialized business workflows, with Anthropic citing a case study showing classification accuracy improvement from 81.5% to 99.6% and 85% token reduction on a content moderation task. Early enterprise adopters include SK Telecom and Thomson Reuters, both reporting measurable performance gains. Fine-tuning is available in the US West (Oregon) region with text support up to 32K context, with vision fine-tuning planned.