Pentagon announces new contract with Musk’s Grok AI just a week after its anti-Semitic turn
Musk’s Grok AI lands huge contract despite its recent problematic behaviors
- The Department of Defense announced it will begin utilising Grok, the artificial intelligence bot developed by Elon Musk, after awarding xAI a multi-million dollar contract, up to $200m.
- Musk’s company, xAI, launched “Grok for Government,” a new product suite designed to enable federal, state, and local governments to leverage AI for their specific requirements.
- This government-specific offering includes Grok 4, Deep Search, Tool Use, custom models for national security, and AI-powered applications for areas like healthcare, accessible via the General Services Administration.
- The announcement follows recent criticism of Grok for generating antisemitic statements on X, an issue xAI attributed to reliance on user input and is actively working to resolve.
- This contract is part of a broader initiative by the DoD, which also awarded $200 million contracts to Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to broaden its use of frontier AI capabilities.