Amazon.com-backed Anthropic said on Tuesday it will offer its Claude AI model to the U.S. government for $1, joining a growing list of artificial intelligence startups proposing lucrative deals to win federal contracts.

Anthropic's popular coding model just became a little more enticing for developers with a million-token context window.

Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI,

The move comes almost immediately after OpenAI offered its ChatGPT enterprise for all US federal government workers for $1 per year per agency, as the firms look to undercut each other - and presumably create a reliance within the public sector, which is likely to use AI tools to help streamline their work and save money on admin costs.

Anthropic said on Tuesday it will provide Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government to every branch of the U.S. federal government for $1 per agency for one year, according to information shared by the company.

The Anthropic AI company announced Tuesday it will offer its Claude AI to all three branches of U.S. government for $1, topping a dollar deal made by OpenAI.

Open AI also offered ChatGPT variants to the US government for the same price of $1. Anthropic will also be providing technical support to the US government with regards to their