OR Openai, Alphabet’s Google, Anthropic and the artificial intelligence company xai of Masculine They have won contracts aimed at adopting new advanced artificial intelligence opportunities for the US Department of Defense, the US Digital and Artificial Intelligence Bureau said Monday.

Each of the contracts has a maximum of $ 200 million and will allow the Ministry of Defense to develop artificial intelligence for his daily activities and use it to address critical challenges related to national securitythe office said.

“The creation of these partnerships will broaden the experience and utilization of the pioneering artificial intelligence of the Ministry of Defense and increase the ability of these companies to understand and face critical national security needs,” he said.

Last month, the Pentagon announced that Openai won a $ 200 million contract, saying that the manufacturer of Chatgpt will “develop original capabilities of artificial intelligence at the border to address critical national security challenges in both war and corporate sectors”.

The White House management and budget office has published new instructions in April, ordering federal services to ensure that the government and the public “will benefit from a competitive US market for artificial intelligence”.