Anthropic Unveils Amazon-Inspired Marketplace for AI Software

Anthropic is launching a new software platform as it businesses faces uncertainty from a standoff with the Pentagon. 

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Anthropic PBC is launching a new platform for its corporate customers to purchase third-party software, broadening the AI developer’s offerings at a time when its business faces new uncertainty from a standoff with the Pentagon.

The company said Friday that Anthropic Marketplace will let its customers more easily purchase a mix of software applications that use Anthropic’s models, with options including services from Snowflake Inc., Harvey and Replit Inc. The OpenAI rival will not take a cut of these purchases and will allow its customers to use some of their committed annual spending on Anthropic’s own services toward third-party tools, a model it likens to software marketplaces from Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.