Anthropic Spat With US Emerges as Risk Factor for Figma, Others

Anthropic PBC’s legal dispute with the US government over whether the company’s artificial intelligence models will be banned from federal agencies has emerged as a financial threat to other businesses.

Design software maker Figma Inc. said it may harm its ability to sell to the government if Anthropic continues to be declared a “supply chain risk.” Anthropic’s Claude is the large language model on which Figma built AI features for products sold to federal agencies, the company disclosed Thursday in a regulatory filing. If the US government bars Anthropic and Figma is unable to find a suitable replacement, “sales to governmental entities and highly regulated organizations could suffer,” according to the filing.