---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Australian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research"
description: "Today, Anthropic signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian government to cooperate on AI safety research and support the goals of Australia’s National AI Plan. Our."
resource: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/australia-MOU"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "anthropic"]
timestamp: "2026-03-31"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "Anthropic"
cope_score: 47
confidence: 0.88
---

# Australian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research

# Claim

Today, Anthropic signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian government to cooperate on AI safety research and support the goals of Australia’s National AI Plan. Our CEO, Dario Amodei, met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to formalize the agreement during a visit to Canberra, Australia. We also announced AUD$3 million in partnerships with.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a low-signal vendor radar item. Keep it as context only unless a later benchmark, deployment, procurement change, or labour-market datapoint turns it into direct Appendix III evidence.

# Metadata

* Publisher: Anthropic
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Public sector
* Capability: Vendor platform capability signal
* Cope score: 47
* Confidence: 0.88

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Australian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research](https://www.anthropic.com/news/australia-MOU)