Just days after the news that the state would make Anthropic's Claude available to all its agencies, the California Department of Technology’s in-house productivity assistant, Poppy, has officially been released statewide.
Up until July 1, the tool was only available to a small subset of about 2,700 state workers across roughly 70 departments as part of a pilot program that began in September 2025.
The tool is a collection of 10 popular models consolidated into one platform and tailored to the needs of state employees, things such as drafting documents, analyzing large data sets and researching policy.
Special care was taken to secure the platform, CDT noted in its announcement, with special attention to security compliance and automatic personally identifiable information detection. What’s more, the information entered into Poppy cannot be used to train its foundational models.
CDT requested $1 million from the Legislature to expand Poppy this year.
More information about the platform is available here.
CDT's AI Assistant, Poppy, Goes Mainstream
The California Department of Technology has released the digital assistant it's been piloting since September 2025. The statewide release is another feather in the state's cap related to worker productivity tools.
