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Title: US Defense Department Awards Contracts To Google, xAI

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/22532...

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts worth up to $200 million
each to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI to scale adoption of advanced AI.
"The contracts will enable the DoD to develop agentic AI workflows and use
them to address critical national security challenges," reports Reuters,
citing the department's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.
From the report: Separately on Monday, xAI announced a suite of its products
called "Grok for Government", making its advanced AI models -- including its
latest flagship Grok 4 -- available to federal, local, state and national
security customers. The Pentagon announced last month that OpenAI was awarded
a $200 million contract, saying the ChatGPT maker would "develop prototype
frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in
both warfighting and enterprise domains." The contracts announced on Monday
deepen the ties between companies leading the AI race and U.S. government
operations, while addressing concerns around the need for competitive
contracts for AI use in federal agencies. "The adoption of AI is transforming
the (DoD's) ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic
advantage over our adversaries," Chief Digital and AI Officer Doug Matty
said.

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