Pentagon reaches agreements with leading AI companies

Published May 1, 2026 Updated May 1, 2026 06:01pm

The Pentagon says it has reached agreements with seven AI companies to deploy their advanced capabilities on the Defence Department’s classified networks as it seeks to diversify the range of AI companies working across the military, according to Reuters.

The statement notably excludes Anthropic, which has been in dispute with the Pentagon over guardrails for how the military could use its artificial intelligence tools.

The Pentagon labeled the AI start-up, which is widely used across the Department of Defence, a supply-chain risk earlier this year, barring its use by the Pentagon and its contractors.

SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, several of which already work with the Pentagon, will be integrated into the Pentagon’s Impact Levels 6 and 7 network environments giving more of the military access to their products, the Pentagon said in a statement.

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