Summary

  • AI company OpenAI has announced a partnership with the US government, which will allow federal agencies to access its models for $1 for the next year.
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been working with the Trump administration since January to reach this agreement, which is also designed to fulfil Trump’s AI Action Plan, which aims to speed up AI innovation in the US.
  • OpenAI has been meeting with government agencies including the General Services Administration and Food and Drug Administration since at least May to promote its tools, according to documents obtained by Wired.
  • The deal could help US government departments, such as the Department of Defense, modernise their operations and potentially access massive quantities of data that could be used to train AI systems.

By Zoë Schiffer, Will Knight

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