xAI announces Grok for Government days after Grok 4 release

xAI, the artificial intelligence company run by Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, has released Grok For Government, which is a suite of frontier AI products for U.S. government customers, the company announced today.

“xAI’s mission is to create and propagate AI tools to assist humanity in our quest for understanding and knowledge,” the company said. “Supporting the critical missions of the United States Government is a key part of this mission – bringing the best tools and technologies available in the commercial world to our hard-working public servants.”

The announcement comes just days after xAI released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4. Grok is expected to be integrated into Tesla vehicles very soon and eventually into Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus.

xAI also announced a new contract with the U.S. Department of Defense that has a $200M ceiling. It enables the DOD to use the latest AI tech to develop agentic AI workflows to address national security issues.

“The adoption of AI is transforming the Department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” said Chief Digital and AI Officer Doug Matty. “Leveraging commercially available solutions into an integrated capabilities approach will accelerate the use of advanced AI as part of our Joint mission essential tasks in our warfighting domain as well as intelligence, business, and enterprise information systems.”

xAI was not the only tech company awarded this contract. Other companies included Anthropic, Google (GOOG)(GOOGL) and OpenAI.