OpenAI Gets a $200 Million Contract to Develop AI Models for the Pentagon
- OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract by the US Department of Defense to develop AI models for national security challenges.
- The contract, with OpenAI Public Sector LLC, aims to address critical warfighting and enterprise domains.
- This contract represents a small portion of OpenAI’s annualized sales, which are generating over $10 billion.
- OpenAI has already collaborated with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for national security missions this year.
- The company is also working on building additional AI infrastructure in the US under the $500 billion Stargate project.
IBL News | New York
OpenAI was awarded a $200 million, one-year contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop “prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.”
The Defense Department specified that the contract is with OpenAI Public Sector LLC.
The new contract represents a small portion of OpenAI’s revenue, which is generating over $10 billion in annualized sales. In March, the company announced a $40 billion financing round at a valuation of $300 billion.
In April,xA0Microsoft, which supplies cloud infrastructure to OpenAI, announced that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency hadxA0authorized the use of the Azure OpenAI service withxA0classified information.
Also, this year, OpenAI said it would collaboratexA0with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for “national security missions.”
Currently, OpenAI is working to build additional AI infrastructure in the U.S. under the $500 billion Stargate project.
In 2024,xA0Anthropic, an OpenAI rival, announced plans to collaborate withxA0PalantirxA0andxA0Amazon to providexA0its AI models to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.