OperaVAI All Altman speaks during Snowflake Summit in San Francisco 2. June 2025.
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Openai received a $ 200 million agreement to ensure the US Department of Defense with artificial intelligence tools.
The Department was announced for months after a one-year contract after Openai said would cooperate With the interruption of the Anduril defense technology to schedule advanced AI systems for “National Security Missions”.
“According to this reward, the contractor will develop the possibilities of prototype boundaries and to engage in critical national security challenges and in war and companies,” Defense said. It is the first contract with Openai listed on the defense department website.
Anduriil received a $ 100 million defense agreement in December. Weeks earlier, anthropic anthropic anthropical operative said it will do Palantir and Amazon to deliver its AI models to US defensive and intelligence agencies.
Sam Altman, Operavai Founder and General Manager, said in the discussion with Openai Committee and the former leader of the National Security Agency Paul Nakasone on A Vanderbilt University event In April that “we must and are proud and we really want to deal with national security areas.”
Openay did not immediately answer the comment request.
The Defense Department stated that the LLC public sector agreement and that work would mainly occur in the region of national capital, which includes Washington, DC and several counties in Maryland and Virginia.
Meanwhile, Openai works to build additional computer power in the United States in January, Altman appeared beside President Donald Trump In the White House to announce a Stargate of 500 billion dollars to build AI infrastructure in the USA
The new contract will represent a small part of the revenue at Openai, which generates over 10 billion dollars in annual sales. In March, the company announced Funding of $ 40 billion a circle on the valuation of $ 300 billion.
