US EditionPentagon Awards $800 Million Contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI
UNITED STATES, JUL 15 – The $200 million contract is part of a $1 billion Pentagon initiative to integrate AI tools from four top firms for national security and classified missions.
- On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded funding agreements potentially reaching $200 million each to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Elon Musk's xAI to support the development of cutting-edge AI technologies.
- These awards followed a White House order from April promoting AI adoption and came amid calls by Senator Elizabeth Warren in May for competitive contracting in the DoD's AI programs.
- XAI launched 'Grok for Government' to provide its AI models, including the latest Grok 4, to federal, state, and local agencies through an official supplier list enabling broad government purchases.
- Doug Matty, the DoD’s top official for digital and artificial intelligence initiatives, noted that these agreements will speed up the integration of AI technologies and strengthen the Department’s capacity to assist military personnel and preserve its competitive edge.
- The contracts deepen cooperation between leading AI companies and U.S. government operations, signaling the defense sector as a key growth area for AI technologies despite public controversies involving xAI's chatbot.
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