OPENAI has awarded an American $ 200 million defense contract

Openai is officially on the pay of the Pentagon. THE The Ministry of Defense has announced A $ 200 million contract with OPENAI to provide the US government with new artificial intelligence tools, including those used for proactive cyber defense.

In an article describing its latest contracts, the DOD said that Optai “will develop prototype capacities of the border AI to meet the critical challenges of national security in the fields of war and business”. The work will mainly be completed in the Washington, DC region, with an estimated completion date of July 2026.

Openai said in a new blog article The fact that the DOD contract is its first partnership under a new initiative to provide its AI technology to workers in federal, state and local governments. The company offers personalized models for national security on “a limited base”, according to the announcement, Openai saying that all use cases must comply with its policies and directives. OPENAI’s current use policy Prohibited for its services from being used to “develop or use weapons” and “injure others or destroy goods”.

“This contract, with a ceiling of $ 200 million, will bring an expertise of OpenAi, industry leaders to help the Ministry of Defense to identify and prototype the way in which the IA border can transform its administrative operations, to improve the way in which the military and their families obtain health care, to rationalize their envisage on the data of the program and the acquisition, to the support for cyber-defense proactive, ”said Openai.

This is not the first time that Optai has been read with the army, having Enduril Industries entered a partnership in December 2024 To integrate its AI software into the counter-ground systems of the Defense Technology Company. The new one -year DOD contract is contrary to the previous versions of the conditions of use of OPENAI which prohibited its technology from being used for “military and war” – a prohibition deleted by the company last year.