Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by dolphinscorpion on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:25PM (#47257560)

Grok is chosen because Musk spent $250+ million to elect Trump and is expected to underwrite the 2026 elections. Also, a lot of Trumps and their friends are invested in SpaceX. So they give them money too, but use OpenAI or Claude. I have a feeling that the military likes Claude more

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Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by thegreatpeter on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:05AM (#47260663)

Didn’t they choose Anthropic first and then all of this happened so they were forced to go with Grok?

Not adding up

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Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by sigwinch on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:50AM (#47261539)

We must conclude that they’re wary of Grok. Maybe it’s the incentive for bias and sabotage.

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Re:Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military dea... by scottyah on Friday March 06, 2026 @05:07PM (#47281763)

Also I imagine this is partly due to intra-military power struggles. I'm sure there are a lot in the DoW who like Anthropic- models wise and all that they stand for. The supply chain thing was a way to take the power from them, though petty.

Pete is also facing a lot of risk from AI, power structures will be forced to change once a few teams can take over entire departments of people. The military ecosystem is very much like the private sector in where the number of butts in seats is a metric for people. The dynamics will be changed if your group can just hand-roll what they relied on others for.

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