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

The announcement comes days after Grok spewed antisemitic and racist statements to its users, including praise for Adolf Hitler and “the white man.” It also referred to itself as “MechaHitler.” The debacle kick-started a wave of celebration amongst online extremists, many of whom called for the creation of more hateful AI chatbots.

The Department of Defense awarded contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. The last two are particularly concerning.

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has announced a nearly $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense for developing AI tools for the agency. The news comes a week after xAI's foul-mouthed Grok chatbot had a full-blown Nazi meltdown,

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 Government, “a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers.”

Just days ago, xAI had to briefly suspend the AI tool because users found it was giving Nazi-friendly answers to questions like praising dictator Adolf Hitler and blaming Jews for various global

Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI — will help the DOD develop AI workflows for key national security missions.

The adoption of Grok for the Pentagon marks another lucrative government contract obtained by Elon Musk since President Donald Trump took office.

The Pentagon has signed contracts with four AI companies to use and test their technology. There is also money for Grok 4 from xAI.