On May 22, according to ReutersSpaceX IPO IS EXPECTED TO BE THE LARGEST EVER, IN PART BECAUSE OF ITS COMMITMENT TO START UP WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UNDER THE FLAG xAIn its so-called trillion-dollar market for artificial intelligence services, it received a piece。
But according to seven federal employees, three contract experts and Reuters's verification of government artificial intelligence inventory documents Grok The chat robot is one of the largest clients in the world - US GovernmentThere was Waterloo。
The United States federal agencies consolidated inventory records in 2025 showed that over 400 cases of publicly identified artificial intelligence applications were clearly identified as suppliers. Of these, only 3 cases involve xAI or Grok. OpenAI (including ChatGPT, Codex, Microsoft Copilot) has 234 cases, Google Gemini and Alphabet products 33 and Anthropic Claude (later blacklisted by the Trump government) 26。
Grok has been open to federal agencies for eight months at a fee of 42 cents per institution. This near-free pricing strategy (which is also widely used by its competitors) is a typical tool for technology giants to attract government users, lock markets before entering into high-cost long-term contracts。
According to Valerie Wirtschafter, a researcher at the Brookings Institution who studied the federal government's AI application, "This is intended to promote universal access, so that federal employees eventually cannot imagine how to work without a generated AI."
OMB data raises questions: Is Grok able to take the AI market share from front-line products such as Claude, ChatGPT and support the IPO valuation of SpaceX 1.75 trillion yuan (note: the current exchange rate is about RMB 11.92 trillion)
In a recently submitted regulatory document, SpaceX claims that its projected revenues from AI services to large enterprises and institutions (corresponding to the total market size of $26.5 trillion) will be much higher than all other operations。
The joint founder and CEO Vinnet Jain of Enterprise AI Software, Egnyte, put it bluntly: “The US government's cold attitude to Grok is a canary (dangerous signal) in a coal mine that exposes SpaceX's over-optimistic ambition for its universal reach.”
He further explained: “This indicates that the model lacks the required safety standards at the federal level and is a major warning for some business clients. Without government endorsement, the $1.75 trillion valuation is more like a distant ceiling than a solid bottom line.”
SpaceX CEO Elon Mask has publicly advocated the potential of Grok in the work of the Government and actively lobbied for its wider application. In September 2025, when he announced an agreement with the GSA, he stated that the team wished to work with President Trump to “surge AI within the Government for the benefit of the country”。
The Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Mask, has promoted Grok: for example, the disbanded department has requested the United States Department of Homeland Security to use Grok, although the tool has not yet been authorized to deploy within this large body。
THE AI INVENTORY DATA COLLECTED BY OMB REVEAL THE CURRENT STATE OF TECHNICAL DEPLOYMENT OF FEDERAL AGENCIES (INCLUDING USE, NUMBER OF USERS, MOSTLY ROUTINE TASKS, SUCH AS MAIL CLASSIFICATION, CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPTION; ADVANCED USES, INCLUDING ANTI-FRAUD, SPACE RESEARCH; AND NATIONAL SECURITY-RELATED CASES ARE USUALLY NOT MADE PUBLIC)。
There were inconsistencies in the data (e.g., some forms did not include specific AI services) and Wirtschafter reminded agencies of differences in the definition of “AI application cases”, but she continued to call the database “the current comprehensive list of AI applications in the non-military, non-intelligence field”。
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Grok is used only for basic tasks (e.g., drafting of first draft documents, social media postings); the OPM spokesperson stated that Microsoft Copilot is the institution ' s most used AI tool。
- Advanced areas of application (used by a few users): only 2 limited pilot projects - Lawrence Rivermore National Laboratory, Electoral Assistance Committee, Ministry of Energy; OpenAI + Microsoft totals 140 cases。
Inventory data do not include the Pentagon (which signed a $200 million contract with xAI). In early 2025, the United States Defense Minister announced the inclusion of Grok on the military non-confidential AI platform GenAI.mil; in May, XAI became one of seven companies authorized to access the Ministry of Defence ' s confidential network。
HOWEVER, ACCORDING TO SOURCES IN THE PENTAGON, MOST EMPLOYEES PREFER TO USE COMPETITIVE AI TOOLS。
- DARPA: Engineering analysis uses Google Gemini, coding, writing and research preference Claude; OpenAI is used occasionally and Grok is largely unusable。
The person added that Claude or Gemini was commonly used in the DARPA high-end engineering circles because Grok “is not the best model at all”。
The Federal Government ' s low usage rates are highly consistent with the Görk ' s penetration difficulties across the commercial market。
Netskope, a network traffic monitor, reported last year that Grok had “failed significant market share” in the business environment; the latest data it provided to Reuters showed that the enterprise-end Grok user ratio had dropped from a peak of 5 per thousand to 2 per thousand。
Netskope executive Ray Canzanese points out that even for staff using Grok, stay is much longer than the competition - for example, users use Grok less than half of ChatGPT. “Grok's data indicate that it will never be able to access mainstream applications in American enterprises.”