The Pentagon's Chief Digital & AI Office has announced an investment of $600 million to enhance its AI capabilities, splitting it among Anthropic, Google, and xAI. This follows a previous $200 million award to OpenAI. These investments focus on commercial off-the-shelf technologies, especially in generative AI and the emerging field of agentic AI. CDAO aims to use the expertise from U.S. AI companies to develop workflows that can adapt across various mission areas, enhancing the Defense Department's technological landscape.
"The awards to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI - 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."
"After OpenAI kicked off the current generative AI explosion with its launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the Pentagon... scrambled to understand the new technology, launching the high-level Task Force Lima that conducted almost 18 months of studies before blessing GenAI as an ongoing area investment."
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