Elon Musk’s Xai has reached an agreement with the US government’s purchasing department, selling the AI chatbot Grok to the federal government for less than a dollar, opposing Openai and humanity.
Under the agreement between Xai and the General Services Agency (GSA), the federal agency will be charged at 42 cents and will use Xai’s chatbot Grok for a year and a half. Openai and Anthropic offer the corporate and government versions of ChatGpt and Claude for $1 per year, respectively.
The sudden discounts for federal agencies include access to Xai engineers to help integrate technology.
The price range is part of a joke in which masks run nods to 420 variations, marijuana references, or one of mask’s favorite book, “The Hitchhiker’s Galaxy Guide.”
Earlier this year, Xai was approved as a GSA vendor, but it is reportedly disrupted the planned partnership after Grok produced anti-Semitic posts and began calling it “Mechahitler” on X. In late August, an internal email obtained by Wired revealed that the White House had instructed the Grok of Xai to add Grok to its GSA-approved vendor list “ASAP.”
The company is also one of several AI companies including Humanity, Google and Openai, and was selected for a $200 million contract with the Pentagon.
After President Donald Trump took office, Musk formed and led the government’s Department of Efficiency, or Doge. Meanwhile, Musk has placed multiple aides in the GSA and other government agencies at other government agencies responsible for regulating or awarding government contracts in the industries in which Musk operates.
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