Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI

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Artificial Intelligence Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI Shyam Sankar also called effective altruism a doomsday cult driving AI safety fears, and said some AI researchers now smoke to show their faith in AI. The ability to choose and switch models is what has been driving Palantir’s commercial growth, he added. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code. Palantir is an open-source intelligence and data analytics software company based in Palo Alto.

The Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI models, with no operational impact, Palantir’s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. The Pentagon stopped using Anthropic’s products after a dispute over its safeguards for military AI.

It labelled the company a supply chain risk. October 13, 2026 - 12:15 pm The Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI models, with no operational impact, Palantir’s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.

It labelled the company a supply chain risk . Anthropic’s Claude was part of Palantir’s Maven Smart System, which the Pentagon uses.

The Department now operates with models from xAI, OpenAI and Google, and open-weight (a model whose trained parameters anyone may download) (published so anyone may download the trained model) models such as Nvidia’s Nemotron, Sankar said. Users building AI applications pick the models they use.

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• The Department now — uses: models from xAI, OpenAI and Google, and open-weight models such as Nvidia’s Nemotron, Sankar said