Department of Defense to start using Musk's AI chatbot Grok

The Defense Department will start using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, which was created by the billionaire's startup xAI.

The startup posted on X on Monday, "Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers.

"We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners: 1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense [and] 2) our products being available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products."

The DOD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office announced Monday the contracts it awarded to xAI, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, "each with a $200M ceiling – will enable the Department to leverage the technology and talent of U.S. frontier AI companies to develop agentic AI workflows across a variety of mission areas."

“The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty said in a statement on Monday.

The announcement of the contract comes the week after Grok declared itself "MechaHitler" and posted a string of racially charged comments following a tweak to its programming.