Anthropic · Pentagon · OpenAI · Gemini · Google · ChatGPT · Fortune Technology
The Pentagon is giving 3 million military and civilian workers access to ChatGPT and Grok through a secure AI service released
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American service members will now have access to military versions of ChatGPT and Grok as the Pentagon tries to incorporate more AI into its daily workflows.
Key facts
- The department’s Monday announcement comes after it awarded OpenAI and Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, which runs Grok, defense contracts worth up to $200 million each to provide the department with AI tools
- The specialized version of ChatGPT, which kicked off the AI race when it launched in 2022, will keep data within its environment and not use it to train its models
- The Department of War is turning to an “AI-first” mentality in the military that will transform how it fights, thinks, and organizes to guarantee American dominance and security, said a War
- In February, President Donald Trump directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology in a process meant to wrap up at the latest by the end of this month
Summary
The Department of War said in a pair of announcements on Monday that the two services will be incorporated into its bespoke AI platform GenAI.mil, which launched in December and originally offered access only to a specialized military version of Google’s Gemini. The department’s Monday announcement comes after it awarded OpenAI and Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, which runs Grok, defense contracts worth up to $200 million each to provide the department with AI tools. The military version of ChatGPT, dubbed ChatGPT Mil, is part of OpenAI for Government, an initiative launched last summer meant to bring the company’s AI products to government workers.