The Pentagon wants to use artificial intelligence more and has signed multi-million dollar contracts with the leading American technology companies. The aim is to expand the AI use “to be able to handle the challenges of the central security policy”.
This was announced by the US Department of Defense on Monday (local time). The orders therefore went to Anthropic, Google, OpenAi and Elon Musks Xai – each with an upper limit of $ 200 million (171 million euros).
“The introduction of AI changes the ability of the ministry to support our armed forces and to maintain a strategic advantage over our opponents,” said the head of Digital Technologies and AI in Pentagon, Doug Matty. More details were initially not given. The US President Donald Trump had focused on artificial intelligence and relaxation at the start of his second term, among other things, regulations of his predecessor Joe Biden.
The competition between AI companies is great
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg only announced on Monday that his company would invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” in AI. They want to make huge data centers. A first new facility called Prometheus should go online in 2026. Zuckerberg wants to stand for AI and compete with the Chatgpt developer OpenAI. According to media reports, he is dissatisfied with the pace with which Meta is progressing in the development of powerful AI. The group recently spent a lot of money to attract experts in the industry.
Elon Musks Xai also wants to spend a lot of billion dollars for data centers. At Xai the AI Chatbot Grok is developed, with which users can talk about the Platform X, which also belongs to the technical billionaire. Grok had recently caused a scandal with anti -semitic statements. After violent criticism, Xai attributed this to a failed update and apologized. However, the incident makes clear which risks are associated with the rapid introduction of new technologies in the race for artificial intelligence, the “Washington Post” wrote.
Until recently, Musk was the narrow consultant of Trump. The two had broken the dispute about the American budget policy. The company of the technical billionaire has also announced a range with the name “Grok for Goedere” (translated: grok for the government) on Monday, which can be used by authorities and government agencies for their respective tasks.
Source: Krone
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