His road trips will have cost him a prestigious contract. In a set of emails consulted by the Wired media, we learned that Xai was about to sign an agreement with the US government. The objective was to modernize US public services offering Grok’s paid version to public officials.
But the agreement took a completely different turn when the chatbot began to pronounce racist and anti -Semitic comments in X at the beginning of July. The General Services Administration (GSA), an institution in particular, to provide software and computer tools to other US federal agencies, preferred to break the agreement, to the XAI dam.
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After Gemini, Chatgpt and Claude, Grok remained the great absent of multiple awards, a program that allows US companies to offer their products to all US public services. As part of this program, Openai and Anthrope significantly offered their respective version paid for 1 annual symbolic euro.
However, Xai was with a good impulse. After a meeting in June 2025 with GSA’s leaders, the Musk company left to join this multiple awards calendar, Wired learned from a GSA employee. Grok had to integrate the Carahsoft catalog in particular, a provider of IT solutions for all US federal agencies.
Madness will give way to doubt quickly after the road trips of Elon Musk’s AI. According to two sources close to the archive interviewed by Wired, shortly before the common announcement of the association with Gemini, Claude and Chatgpt, GSA’s teams were commissioned to Ray Grok from the list.
In July, XAI had announced a $ 200 million contract with the United States Ministry of Defense to implement Grok. At the same time, the firm launched “Grok for the Government” a version of the adapted to the needs of federal agencies.
In the American public service
For its part, the Trump government is determined to integrate AI in its public institutions. A will of agreement with the United States AI AI Plan defended by the President, a program that aims to make the United States the leader of artificial intelligence in the world.
In a statement dating from August 14, 2025, the GSA announced the deployment of the USAI suite. It allows federal agencies to experiment with OpenAi, anthropic, Google but also Meta Ia. This confirms that Grok is not there.
“The launch of USAI shows how GSA implements President Trump’s strategy in terms of AI and accelerates the adoption of AI throughout the government. USAI will directly make the tools ready to accelerate modernization, strengthen security and play a global leading role,” said an assistant GSA administrator in the press release.
Recently, a study by the London School of Economics warned public services against the adoption of the assistant, particularly because some models are still full of prejudices.
Source: BFM TV
