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Booz Allen Hamilton has switched from mainly using Anthropic models to Nvidia’s Nemotron for software supporting cybersecurity and defence work, the company’s CTO Bill Vass told The Information. He said the change has brought significant cost savings, though Booz Allen did not share figures.
Why it mattersThe shift happened several months ago, and it is not a wholesale Claude farewell: Vass said Booz Allen developers still mostly use Anthropic’s Claude Code to build software. He is interested in trying Nemotron for coding as its capabilities improve. A useful real-world signal for Nvidia’s open models, then, but one customer’s savings are not a price list.
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NVIDIA Watch Update What changedThe Information adds two broader indicators of Nemotron use beyond Booz Allen. Open-source coding platform Kilo Code says the models accounted for nearly 17% of the roughly 50 trillion tokens processed through its software in October, up from 8% the month before.
The picture is less dominant on OpenRouter, which handles a much larger and broader mix of usage: Nemotron represented about 4% of tokens processed over the past month, the report says, and less than 1% of customer spending so far in November. Anthropic accounted for 31% of spending in that period, according to the article.
The report also says Booz Allen spends tens of millions of dollars a year on AI, citing a person familiar with the company. That gives some scale to the customer’s reported cost savings from switching to Nemotron, but no specific saving was disclosed.
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- Booz Allen Switches to Nvidia’s Nemotron - The Information: The Information reports that Nemotron accounted for nearly 17% of tokens processed through Kilo Code in October, about 4% of OpenRouter tokens over the past month and less than 1% of OpenRouter spending so far in November; it also reports that Booz Allen spends tens of millions of dollars annually on AI.
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