Openai has just launched an initiative called Openai for the Government Starting with a new modest contract. The company was granted $ 200 million by the United States Defense Department (DOD) to develop “Prototypes of the capacities of Frontier Ai to meet critical national security challenges in both war domains and companies”, ” According to DOD website.
The contract is the first of DOD with Openai. It will last a year and will largely take place in an area that includes Washington, DC and counties near Maryland and Virginia. The company said that its new program will provide the federal, state and premises access to their latest models through Chatgpt Enterprise and Chatgpt GV, along with personalized models for national security in a limited manner.
“ This contract, with a roof of $ 200 million, will provide the leading experience in the Openai Industry to help the Defense Department to identify and prototype how Frontier Ai can transform its administrative operations, from improving the way members of the service and their families achieve health care, to streamline how to look at the program data and acquisition, to support the Cybernetic Cybernetic Defense, ”
Last year Openai announced that it was collaboration With Palmer Lucky’s Startup Industries anduril Industries Develop and Pentagon. Companies said they aimed to combine Openai models, including Gpt-4oWith Anduril’s software and software to improve the defenses of the North -Americans against position without position. However, Openai and DOD did not refer to Anduril or the Drone defense in their ads today.
The contract opens a new source of income for Openai. The company He recently said Which will increase sales of about $ 10 billion at present to $ 125 million in just four years, without providing many details on how it plans to do it. Openai is currently making Chatgpt money for consumers, along with business products and their application programming interface (API). It spends much more than it does, having lost $ 5 billion by 2024 on $ 4 billion in revenue.
In January, Openai announced the $ 500 million Stargate program to develop additional computer power in the United States. The company completed a $ 40 billion funding round that currently values it to more than $ 300 million. However, critics have it argued Which, despite burning huge amounts of cash in cloud infrastructure, still has no clear path to profitability. Relations are too According to the alleged With the close partner of the Microsoft company at this time.
