Elon Musk's xAI offers Grok to federal government
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok AI, will be available to agencies for $0.42 as part of the OneGov procurement program.
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.
For most enterprise use cases, though, Grok 4 Fast represents one of the most compelling cost-efficiency options on the market today — a chance to integrate frontier reasoning into customer-facing services or internal workflows without frontier-level bills.
A few months after the release of Grok 4 and an extremely problematic antisemitic meltdown of its chatbot, xAI is already trying to move on with its latest AI model. Elon Musk's xAI announced the release of Grok 4 Fast,
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xAI Workers Leak Disturbing Information About Grok Users
xAI has been beset by chaos and controversy. The company laid off 500 workers, including high-level employees and those in charge of data annotation, earlier this month. The department in charge of training Grok is now led by a college student who graduated from high school in 2023.