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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says the US Department of Defense replaced Anthropic’s Claude models with alternatives including OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia’s open-weight models, without disrupting operations in Project Maven.
Why it mattersSankar also argued against new AI regulation, saying companies should take engineering responsibility for safety. That is a notable view from a senior executive whose company builds software for government and defence work, though one executive’s account is not a full picture of the Pentagon’s systems. Benzinga reports that Sankar made the comments on CBS News. The model-switching claim adds a fresh angle to the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute: how much does changing providers matter if the work carries on?
Discuss: Should the Pentagon’s ability to switch AI providers count as meaningful choice, or does continuity risk obscuring who is accountable for the systems in use?
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