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Musk's xAI was a late addition to the Pentagon's set of $200 million AI contracts, former Defense employee says
Source: NBC News
July 22, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
The Pentagon last week announced multimillion-dollar contracts with four artificial intelligence companies intended to “address critical national security challenges,” including Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. But the fourth raised questions among artificial intelligence experts: Elon Musk’s xAI.
Now, a former Pentagon employee who worked on the early stages of the AI initiative told NBC News that including xAI was a late-in-the-game addition under the Trump administration.
The contracts had been in the works for months, with planning dating to the Biden administration.
“There had not been a single discussion with anyone from X or xAI, up until the time I left,” said Glenn Parham, who took a government buyout in March. “It kind of came out of nowhere.”
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/musk-xai-was-added-late-pentagon-grok-defense-department-rcna219488
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