Anthropic's bid for the Pentagon's $100 million Orchestrator Prize Challenge, aimed at developing voice-controlled autonomous drone swarm technology, was unsuccessful. The competition, organized by the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group and the Defense Innovation Unit, involves multiple phases from software development to field testing. Anthropic's proposal, centered on its AI model Claude, emphasized human oversight in drone coordination, avoiding autonomous targeting. Despite proposing a joint research initiative with the Pentagon, Anthropic was not selected. The winning proposals included a joint submission from SpaceX and xAI, and two defense tech companies partnered with OpenAI, including Applied Intuition. OpenAI's technology will assist in the "mission control" phase, converting voice commands into digital instructions. Following the Pentagon's announcement prohibiting contractors from commercial activities with Anthropic, OpenAI secured a new agreement with the Department of Defense for AI tool deployment on a classified cloud system. Anthropic declined to comment on the outcome.