OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

Openai obtained a $ 200 million contract to provide the US Department of Defense with artificial intelligence tools.

The department announced the one year contract on Monday, months after Openai said it would collaborate With the start-up of defense technology Andendil to deploy advanced AI systems for “national security missions”.

“As part of this prize, the interpreter will develop prototype capacities of the border AI to meet critical national security challenges in the fields of war and business,” said the Ministry of Defense. This is the first contract with OPENAI listed on the website of the Ministry of Defense.

Andundil obtained a $ 100 million defense contract in December. Weeks earlier, the Anthropic Rival Openai said it would work with Palantant And Amazon To provide its AI models to American defense and intelligence agencies.

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of Openai, said in a discussion with the member of the board of directors of Openai and former head of the national security agency Paul Nakasone in a Vanderbilt University event In April, “we have to and are proud of us and really want to engage in national security zones”.

OPENAI did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

The Ministry of Defense specified that the contract is with OpenAI Public Sector LLC and that the work will occur mainly in the region of the national capital, which includes Washington, DC and several neighboring counties of Maryland and Virginia.

Meanwhile, Openai works to create an additional computing power in the United States in January, Altman appeared next to President Donald Trump At the White House to announce the Stargate project of $ 500 billion to build AI infrastructure in the United States

The new contract will represent a small part of the income in Openai, which generates more than $ 10 billion in annualized sales. In March, the company announcement A $ 40 billion financing round for an assessment of $ 300 billion.

In April, Microsoftwhich provides a cloud infrastructure in Openai, said that the American Defense Information Systems Agency has authorized use of the Azure Openai service with secret classified information.

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