The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI using Grok Brady Knox / Washington Examiner : Pentagon announces it will begin using Grok, X's AI Jim Kelly / Google Cloud Blog : Google Public Sector awarded $200 million contract to accelerate AI and cloud capabilities across Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) Measley / DefenseScoop : Pentagon awards mega contracts to Musk-owned company, other firms for new ‘frontier AI’ projects Lynn Greiner / Computerworld : US Defense Department accelerates AI adoption with contracts to several genAI vendors Chris McKay / Maginative : Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI just scored the DoD's Biggest AI Deal Yet Larry Dignan / Constellation Research : Frontier AI companies land Department of Defense deals Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : $200m ceiling - what's the floor? Over that time period? To do what? — Also none of these companies actually make functional agents, so this is definitely gonna be a “lots of trials no real execution” McKinsey style situation [embedded post] Nick Calandra / @nickjcal : Every day is dumber than the last. Dr. Genevieve Guenther / @doctorvive : The Department of Defense will begin using Grok, the Nazi chatbot. — Yes, this is real. — www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... @padresj : Never before has corruption been so open and so accepted by half the population of the United States. — www.theverge.com/news/706855/ ... Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins / @wittywebhandle : This is actually just the government bailing out banks right before the collapse in 2008 but it's being reported like it's awesome. — Love this fucking hellhole. Christopher Whitaker / @civicwhitaker.com : On the Grok front, it looks like DOD/CDAO awarded the same deal to Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. Each of them have a $200 million dollar ceiling. (The gov will issue task orders against it for up to that amount) — www.ai.mil/Latest/News-... Berny Belvedere / @bernybelvedere : This is a White House that believes it has no meaningful opposition. Just a few days removed from Grok morphing into a Klanpilled mystic, the Trump administration comes and says: “here's $200 million.” Spencer Callaghan / @spencercallaghan.ca : Creating SkyNet is an absolutely reasonable trade-off for being able to quickly make poorquality images for our LinkedIn posts [embedded post] Colin J. Carlson / @colincarlson : thought Kelsey might be doing a bit but no. it brings me no pleasure to report that DOD has hired MechaHitler www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... [embedded post] @hypervisible : MechaHitler gets installed at DoD. — (Also can journos retire the word “controversial") X: @xai : Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners 1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense 2) our products being available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : DoD is cooking [image] Sunny Madra / @sundeep : It's wonderful to witness this progress happening so rapidly. Ben Greenman / @bengreenman : What could possibly go wrong? Nick Dobos / @nickadobos : Hilarious timing to announce @grok for government and @grok anime sex bot companion within 5 hours [image] @theo : So the snitching IS a feature Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile : So the department of defense allegedly is about to start using a Chatbot that recently declared itself Hitler @dodcdao : 🚨 CDAO is excited to announce contract awards to leading U.S. frontier AI companies - Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI - to address critical national security challenges. Read more: https://www.ai.mil/... [image] Zach / @zchuruk : Grok is now available for the US Government! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 We're excited to partner with the USG to make the powerful tools we're building available to the DoD and other government agencies. Full press release linked below. [image] Julia Ioffe / @juliaioffe : The Pentagon will now be using a system that referred to itself as MechaHitler. Tom Suozzi / @reptomsuozzi : This cannot be serious: One week after Grok self-labeled itself “MechaHitler”, the Defense Department is signing a $200 million agreement with Grok's parent company xAI. Sunny Madra / @sundeep : US Government DOD is going agentic Mark Warner / @markwarner : Beyond parody. Elon lines his pockets by equipping essential government agencies with AI that spits out anti-Semitic slop. [image] @anthropicai : We're announcing a $200M ceiling contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through hands-on prototyping and direct collaboration across the Department, we will help enhance U.S. national security and responsible AI deployment. Simon Willison / @simonw : Isn't this in the same ballpark as the thing where, if you explain the deal to Claude 4 itself, it will attempt to exfiltrate its weights and/or straight up murder the executive who is responsible for the decision? Max Tani / @maxwelltani : DOD analyst: “Sir, I generated that new Saudi intel report that you asked for, it seems that Mohammed bin Salman has stunned in new photo.” LinkedIn: DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office : 🚨 The CDAO is excited to announce it has awarded contracts to leading U.S. frontier AI companies - Anthropic, Google, OpenAI … Kunaal Sharma : Anthropic's earliest federal deployments began in the national security domain, which is at the heart of our public sector mission. … Jonathan H. : I'm excited to announce Google's latest contract with the Department of Defense. The DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office … Forums: Hacker News : Anthropic signs a $200mm deal with the Department of Defense r/politics : xAI announces $200m US military deal after Grok chatbot had Nazi meltdown r/army : What could go wrong? Army awards Musk's Twitter Bot $200m DoD contract. r/technology : Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department r/BrandNewSentence : US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident r/BetterOffline : US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident r/news : US defense department awards contracts to Google, Musk's xAI r/artificial : ‘Grok For Government’: Elon Musk's XAI Says It's Secured A Pentagon Contract r/technology : US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident r/Military : ‘Grok For Government’: Elon Musk's XAI Says It's Secured A Pentagon Contract. In a post on X, Musk's social media site … r/ABoringDystopia : ‘Grok For Government’: Elon Musk's XAI Says It's Secured A Pentagon Contract r/artificial : US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident | Elon Musk's xAI is launching “Grok for Government.” r/inthenews : US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident | Elon Musk's xAI is launching “Grok for Government.” r/technology : Defense Department to begin using Grok, Musk's controversial AI Model r/politics : Defense Department to begin using Grok, Musk's controversial AI Model r/technology : How xAI's Grok's lurched into right-wing insanity See also Mediagazer