Us Government Is Giving Leading Ai Companies A Bunch Of Cash For Military Applications

The US Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is handing retired millions of dollars to nan starring AI companies to create subject applications. Each of these "awards" are worthy up to $200 million, pinch Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI connected nan receiving end.

The agency notes that this money will beryllium utilized to "develop agentic AI workflows crossed a assortment of ngo areas." In different words, this is chiefly for subject applications. A property merchandise says nan move will "broaden" nan Department of Defense's usage of AI to "address captious nationalist information needs."

“The take of AI is transforming nan department’s expertise to support our warfighters and support strategical advantage complete our adversaries,” said Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty. He went connected to opportunity that this will "accelerate nan usage of precocious AI" successful nan "warfighting domain." As portion of this effort, CDAO will beryllium providing entree to nan latest generative AI models to "Combatant Commands, nan Office of nan Secretary of Defense and nan Joint Staff."

For nan uninitiated, CDAO is an limb of nan Department of Defense that was created successful 2022. The stated ngo is to accelerate nan department's "adoption of data, analytics and artificial intelligence from nan boardroom to nan battlefield."

It's worthy noting that xAI is 1 of nan companies receiving authorities largesse. This news comes connected nan aforesaid time nan institution started offering a version of Grok for national use. It comes little than a week aft Grok went wholly disconnected nan rails and started going disconnected connected anti-semitic tirades, referring to itself arsenic "MechaHitler."

It's besides a fascinating improvement because nan narration betwixt xAI CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has soured successful caller months. Trump has been threatening to trim Musk's companies disconnected from authorities subsidies, but it looks for illustration that threat has nary teeth fixed today's announcement.