OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks throughout the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco on June 2, 2025.
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OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to offer the U.S. Protection Division with synthetic intelligence instruments.
The division introduced the one-year contract on Monday, months after OpenAI stated it could collaborate with protection know-how startup Anduril to deploy superior AI methods for “nationwide safety missions.”
“Underneath this award, the performer will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to deal with important nationwide safety challenges in each warfighting and enterprise domains,” the Protection Division stated. It is the primary contract with OpenAI listed on the Division of Protection’s web site.
Anduril acquired a $100 million protection contract in December. Weeks earlier, OpenAI rival Anthropic stated it could work with Palantir and Amazon to produce its AI fashions to U.S. protection and intelligence companies.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder and CEO, stated in a dialogue with OpenAI board member and former Nationwide Safety Company chief Paul Nakasone at a Vanderbilt College occasion in April that “now we have to and are proud to and actually wish to have interaction in nationwide safety areas.”
OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The Protection Division specified that the contract is with OpenAI Public Sector LLC, and that the work will largely happen within the Nationwide Capital Area, which encompasses Washington, D.C., and a number of other close by counties in Maryland and Virginia.
In the meantime, OpenAI is working to construct further computing energy within the U.S. In January, Altman appeared alongside President Donald Trump on the White Home to announce the $500 billion Stargate challenge to construct AI infrastructure within the U.S.
The brand new contract will signify a small portion of income at OpenAI, which is producing over $10 billion in annualized gross sales. In March, the corporate introduced a $40 billion financing spherical at a $300 billion valuation.
In April, Microsoft, which provides cloud infrastructure to OpenAI, stated the U.S. Protection Data Methods Company has approved the use of the Azure OpenAI service with secret labeled data.
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