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Musk's xAI was a late addition to the Pentagon’s set of $200 million AI contracts, former Defense employee says
The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.
The department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, which announced the contracts, didn’t answer written questions about why it chose xAI, but the Pentagon said in a statement that the antisemitism episode wasn’t enough to disqualify it. “I think the department benefits when it’s engaged with as many organizations as possible,” said Morgan Plummer, the policy director for Americans for Responsible Innovation, an advocacy group that generally favors a middle ground on regulating AI. Parham said that the idea for the $800 million program predates the Trump administration and that work on it began in October after President Joe Biden issued an executive order on AI and national security.
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