Pentagon adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil portal
The Pentagon put OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government on GenAI.mil alongside Google Gemini, where 1.7 million of the Defense Department's 3 million personnel have onboarded — adoption at scale, not a pilot. Anthropic's Claude is absent: the Trump administration designated the company a supply-chain risk, a label it is contesting in court, after it insisted on safety guardrails instead of unrestricted military use. Access to a 3-million-seat government customer now turns on accepting the Pentagon's usage terms rather than on model capability.
Source: techcrunch.com ↗
Anthropic was labeled a supply-chain risk by the Trump administration — a designation that it is currently fighting in court — after it refused to give the Pentagon unrestricted use of its AI tools and instead insisted on certain safety guardrails.
Why this matters
- → Pentagon now has 1.7M personnel on GenAI.mil, normalizing military AI at scale.
- → Anthropic's safety stance cost it a 3M-seat government customer to rivals.
- → AI adoption in defense turns on political designation, not technical merit.