It’s Christmas in August – at least, for those tech-wonks who are interested in new model releases. Today’s news is a very full stocking of brand new LLM editions from three of the biggies – OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

OpenAI was connecting Claude to internal tools that allowed the company to compare Claude’s performance to its own models in categories like coding, writing, and safety.

The US government’s central purchasing arm is adding OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Anthropic to a list of approved artificial intelligence vendors, opening the door to widespread adoption of the technology across civilian federal agencies.

Artificial intelligence (AI) models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have been added to a government purchasing system, allowing federal agencies to buy and use the AI products. The General Services Administration (GSA) announced Tuesday that ChatGPT,

The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which would let government agencies access AI tool sellers with pre-negotiated contracts,

Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1 It's just become a lot easier for US government agencies to procure AI products from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, as the firms and the feds have signed a government-wide agreement to streamline purchasing.

The U.S. government has officially designated OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic as approved artificial intelligence (AI) vendors, paving the way for easier adoption of their tools across federal agencies.

The US government has approved OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic as vendors for AI tools, facilitating federal access to advanced language models via a central contracting platform.

OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOG) (GOOGL), and Amazon.com Inc.-backed (AMZN) Anthropic have reportedly been added to a list of approved vendors of artificial intelligence services by the General Services Administration (GSA).