Google, xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI each receive $200 million contracts from Department of Defense
The Department of Defense is spending $800 million on “agentic AI workflows” and most of the big players are getting a slice of the pie. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI all received awards capping out at $200 million each to help deploy AI in national security applications.
The xAI award comes less than a week after an embarrassing episode where xAI’s chabot, Grok, spewed antisemitic posts praising Hitler after it was given instructions to not shy away from “politically incorrect claims.”
This is just another big bucket of government AI contracts, and there will be many more.
President Trump’s new tax bill carves out over $6 billion for border technologies (and a nice AI tower monopoly for Anduril), OpenAI received an earlier $200 million contract from the DOD, Anthropic is teaming up with Palantir to deploy AI in the battlefield, and Anduril is teaming up with both Meta and Microsoft for various VR headsets for the military.
Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir even have executives who have received commissions from the Army to help further develop a new AI-powered military industrial complex.
In a press release announcing the contracts, Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty wrote:
“The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries.”
The xAI award comes less than a week after an embarrassing episode where xAI’s chabot, Grok, spewed antisemitic posts praising Hitler after it was given instructions to not shy away from “politically incorrect claims.”
This is just another big bucket of government AI contracts, and there will be many more.
President Trump’s new tax bill carves out over $6 billion for border technologies (and a nice AI tower monopoly for Anduril), OpenAI received an earlier $200 million contract from the DOD, Anthropic is teaming up with Palantir to deploy AI in the battlefield, and Anduril is teaming up with both Meta and Microsoft for various VR headsets for the military.
Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir even have executives who have received commissions from the Army to help further develop a new AI-powered military industrial complex.
In a press release announcing the contracts, Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty wrote:
“The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries.”
