USAGENERAL ADMINISTRATION (GSA) ANNOUNCES THURSDAY THAT ELON MASK IS UNDER THE BANNER xA The company has signed a new agreement to expand its artificial smart chat robot Grok Application in the Federal Government. According to the GSA, the Grok AI model can be purchased by the federal agencies from an immediate date until March 2027 at a price of $0.42 per institution, a price lower than the $1 per year charged to the government agencies by Mask's main competitor OpenAI for ChatGPT products。
The agreement is the latest initiative of the Federal Government to promote the OneGov Strategy, aimed at accelerating the application of new technologies such as AI. Since the launch of the OneGov strategy in April this year, large AI companies such as Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have also established new partnerships with the government to provide their products to institutions。
It's worth mentioning that Mask's XAI is in sharp competition with technology giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google parent, Alphabet, in the global AI field. Recently, XAI completed a round of new financing of over $10 billion, valued at $200 billion, one of the most valuable start-ups in the world。
However, Democrats, including some members of Congress and senators, as well as dozens of pro-liberal initiatives, have criticized the Trump government for promoting Grok, arguing that its chat robots have security and reliability problems such as "serious misinformation, hate speech, and ideological prejudice" and that Grok is not suitable for broad deployment in the federal government。