U.S. government gets cheap use of Elon Musk's xAI Grok
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It comes just less than four months after the explosive bust up between Trump and Musk in June, which culminated in a fiery online exchange
Elon Musk's xAI is making its latest Grok AI models, Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fast, available to U.S. federal agencies for less than half a dollar per agency.
The General Services Administration has announced an agreement with Elon Musk's xAI to implement artificial intelligence into the federal workforce and "transform" operations.
This builds upon comments from Zach Whitman, GSA’s chief AI officer, who told FedScoop last month that GSA created a process for approving “families” of AI models and establishing a new AI safety team to evaluate the models for different tasks. This includes a method of red-teaming to test models’ performance.
Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.