Anthropic, SpaceX(AI) become unlikely compute partners
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The deals come as the DoD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.
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The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), a division of the US Department of Commerce, has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI that would give the agency the ability to vet AI models from these organizations and others prior to their being made publicly available. According to a release from CAISI, which is part of the department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), it will “conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security.” The three join Anthropic and OpenAI, which signed similar agreements almost two years ago during the Biden administration, when CAISI was known as the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. An August 2024 release about those agreements indicated that the institute planned to provide feedback to both companies on “potential safety improvements to their models, in close collaboration with its partners at the UK AI Safety In
The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.
The vendor’s new agents could find a home in big Wall Street firms, threaten mid-sized service providers and start to push entry-level finance jobs aside.
Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.