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Elon Musk's xAI has struck a woody with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to supply the artificial quality startup's Grok chatbot to national agencies, the government's procurement limb said connected Thursday.
The declaration underscores Washington's propulsion to grow the usage of AI successful authorities operations, portion intensifying contention among starring developers of the booming exertion for national business.
The agreement, effectual done March 2027, allows agencies to bargain Grok models for 42 cents per organisation, compared with the $1 per twelvemonth OpenAI charges for entree to its ChatGPT service, GSA said.
The declaration covers Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fast, which xAI describes arsenic its astir precocious reasoning models. The bureau said xAI engineers would besides assistance agencies with implementation.
Agencies volition besides person the enactment to upgrade to Grok endeavor subscriptions aligned with national information standards, offering expanded features and higher usage limits.
However, critics person said Grok has generated factually incorrect answers and politically skewed commentary, reflecting broader doubts implicit the reliability of generative AI.
Advocacy groups person flagged episodes wherever the strategy produced violative connection oregon conspiracy-tinged claims, prompting questions astir the safeguards built into its algorithms.
The woody is the latest nether GSA's "OneGov Strategy," launched successful April to standardise exertion procurement and grow authorities usage of AI. Other suppliers nether the programme see OpenAI, Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google and Anthropic. GSA has besides approved Meta's Llama exemplary for bureau usage earlier this week, making it disposable to national customers astatine nary cost.
