OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 cardinal declaration to supply the U.S. Defense Department with artificial quality tools.

The section announced the one-year declaration connected Monday, months aft OpenAI said it would collaborate with defence exertion startup Anduril to deploy precocious AI systems for "national information missions."

"Under this award, the performer volition make prototype frontier AI capabilities to code captious nationalist information challenges successful some warfighting and endeavor domains," the Defense Department said. It's the archetypal declaration with OpenAI listed connected the Department of Defense's website.

Anduril received a $100 cardinal defence declaration successful December. Weeks earlier, OpenAI rival Anthropic said it would enactment with Palantir and Amazon to proviso its AI models to U.S. defence and quality agencies.

Sam Altman, OpenAI's co-founder and CEO, said successful a treatment with OpenAI committee subordinate and erstwhile National Security Agency person Paul Nakasone astatine a Vanderbilt University event successful April that "we person to and are arrogant to and truly privation to prosecute successful nationalist information areas."

OpenAI did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The Defense Department specified that the declaration is with OpenAI Public Sector LLC, and that the enactment volition mostly hap successful the National Capital Region, which encompasses Washington, D.C., and respective adjacent counties successful Maryland and Virginia.

Meanwhile, OpenAI is moving to physique further computing powerfulness successful the U.S. In January, Altman appeared alongside President Donald Trump astatine the White House to denote the $500 cardinal Stargate task to physique AI infrastructure successful the U.S.

The caller declaration volition correspond a tiny information of gross astatine OpenAI, which is generating implicit $10 cardinal successful annualized sales. In March, the institution announced a $40 cardinal financing circular astatine a $300 cardinal valuation.

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