Pentagon Awards Contracts to 4 Artificial Intelligence Developers

The contracts with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI come with a ceiling of $200 million each, to accelerate the military’s adoption of AI systems.

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The U.S. Department of Defense announced on July 14 that it has awarded contracts to four U.S.-based artificial intelligence (AI) developers to address national security challenges.

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI will each receive a contracting award with a ceiling of $200 million, according to a statement shared by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.