The Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it had awarded contracts to several artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as Elon Musk’s xAI, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
In a press release, the DOD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) revealed that “leading U.S. frontier AI companies” had been awarded contracts in order to “accelerate” the DOD’s “adoption of advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges.”
The awards to the companies each had a “$200M ceiling,” according to the press release:
The awards to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI – each with a $200M ceiling – will enable the…
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