OpenAI signs $200 million Pentagon deal

The developer of ChatGPT has signed on to “prototype frontier AI capabilities” for the US Defense Department

OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT language model, has received a $200 million contract from the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon announced Monday. The company says it is part of a drive to “defend democracy” against rising Chinese competition.

The contract tasks OpenAI with developing “prototype frontier AI capabilities...