Openai wins a US protection settlement of 200 million US {dollars}

Sam Altman, CEO of Openaai, speaks on June 2, 2025 during the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco.

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Openai received a 200 million dollar contract to provide the US Department of Defense Artificial Intelligence Tools.

The department announced the one-year contract on Monday, months after Openaai stated that it would work with the startup of defense technology in cooperation with progressive AI systems for “national security missions”.

“According to this award, the performer Prototype Frontier will develop AI functions in order to tackle critical national security challenges both in war habits and in corporate domains,” said the Ministry of Defense. It is the first contract with Openaai to be listed on the Defense Ministry.

Anduril received a defense contract of $ 100 million in December. Weeks earlier said Openai -Rival Anthropic that it would work with Palantir And Amazon To deliver your AI models to US defense and secret services.

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of Openaai, said in a discussion with the Openai board member and the former leader of the National Security Authority, Paul Nakasone, at an event at Vanderbilt University in April that “we are proud and of national security areas”.

Openai did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

The Ministry of Defense stated that the contract with Openaai Public Sector LLC takes place and that the work will mainly take place in the National Capital region, which includes Washington, DC and several nearby counties in Maryland and Virginia.

Meanwhile, Openai is working on building additional computing power in the United States in January.

The new contract will represent a small part of the income at Openai, which has over 10 billion US dollars in annual sales. In March, the company announced a round of financing of $ 40 billion with an assessment of 300 billion US dollars.

In April, MicrosoftThe Openai Cloud infrastructure, said that the U.S. defense information agency has approved the use of the Azure Openai service with secret information.

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