OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI have every been awarded a contrct of as much as $200 million by the US Division of Defence in a bid to scale up adoption of AI capabilities within the US. The brand new contract will assist DoD develop agentic AI workflows and use them to deal with essential nationwide safety challenges, DoD’s Chief Digital and Synthetic Intelligence Ofice mentioned as per Reuters.
“The adoption of AI is remodeling the (DoD’s) skill to assist our warfighters and preserve strategic benefit over our adversaries,” DoD’s Chief Digital and AI Officer Doug Matty said.
US authorities companies have reportedl been increasing their use of AI owing to a White Home order in April which promoted using new expertise. President Donald Trump has additionally regarded to melt the regulation round AI by revoking a 2023 government order which regarded to scale back dangers of AI by mandating knowledge disclosures.
In a separate announcement on Monday, xAI introduced a brand new vary of merchandise known as “Grok for Authorities” which made its superior AI fashions together with the lately launched Grok 4 mannequin obtainable to native, federal, state and nationwide authorities.
Previous to xAI and Google, Pentagon had introduced final month that it was awarding a $200 million contract for OpenAI, noting that the corporate would “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to deal with essential nationwide safety challenges in each warfighting and enterprise domains”
The brand new contract additionally comes at a time when there was rising distance between President Trump and Elon Musk. Trump’s greatest backer through the 2024 elections had turned in opposition to him on the problem of presidency spending and later began his personal American get together.
In the meantime, Musk’s xAI has additionally been embroiled in a current controversy with the corporate’s Grok chatbot spewing anti-semitic sentiments and even occurring to praising Adolf Hitler final week. Since then, xAI has apologized for Grok’s ‘horrific’ conduct and blamed it on a ‘deprecated’ code together with the extermist views of its customers.
