The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.

The Pentagon is set to spend nearly a billion dollars for AI with four major Silicon Valley tech firms, Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic.

Now, a former Pentagon employee who worked on the early stages of the AI initiative has told NBC News that including xAI was a late-in-the-game addition under the Trump administration.

The Department of Defense is set to begin using Musk's controversial chatbot Grok, according to a Monday announcement.

The Defense Department will begin using Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot started by billionaire Elon Musk’s startup xAI. In a post to Musk’s social media platform X, xAI unveiled Grok for ...

Elon Musk's xAI gets an UNPRECEDITED $200 million deal with none other than the Pentagon to create the “Grok for Government” initiative this year!

Pentagon awards $200M contract to Elon Musk's xAI for Grok AI deployment despite recent antisemitic content controversies on social media platform.

The White House Press Secretary told reporters that she "doesn't think" Trump wants federal agencies to have contracts with Musk's AI company.

(RTTNews) - Elon Musk's AI venture, xAI, has secured a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $200 million, just a week after its chatbot Grok faced backlash for antisemitic responses ...

Musk is pictured here at an AI safety summit in 2023. (Leon Neal/AP) The Pentagon announced Monday it has chosen Google, xAI, Anthropic and OpenAI to help the U.S. military expand its use of advanced ...

The deal is part of the Trump administration's push for more aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence in the government.

Elon Musk's companies have benefited from government contracts, including SpaceX through its relationships with the Pentagon and NASA.