The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M dollars

https://www.theverge.com/news/706855/grok-mechahitler-xai-defense-department-contract

by 01-_- • 1 year ago

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hunglee2• 1 year ago

Military-Civilian fusion, with US characteristics

greatgib• 1 year ago

Musk managed once again to steal public subventions...

Am I the only one seeing a kind of bribery attempt with the expectation that Musk will stop publicly asking about the Epstein files?

lenkite• 1 year ago

This is merely standard operating procedure for Washington, no matter who is in power.

bananapub• 1 year ago

er, no, normally random rich guys don’t get to be co-president.

the US has been fairly fucked for a while but the endemic corruption and the deconstruction of the state under Trump is a huge step change, not “lol both sides”.

billy99k• 1 year ago

I doubt it. There are also contracts with the other major AI providers.

ImJamal• 1 year ago

Probably not related. From the article:

xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI

nioj• 1 year ago

saubeidl2• 1 year ago

"Fascism - A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." - American Heritage Dictionary, 1983

Mountain_Skies• 1 year ago

Weird how no one cared about the merger of Silicon Valley and the government pre-Trump. Pretty much every tech CEO had Obama on call, which was seen as a good thing by most here. And then there's what happened during the pandemic, which also was quite popular here on HN.

saubeidl2• 1 year ago

together with belligerent nationalism

heisgone• 1 year ago

"xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI."

The US government announces a Grok contract worth 200M dollars

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