Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s bromance appears to be again on.
After reuniting with the president at right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial on Sunday, the multibillionaire Tesla CEO and former DOGE chief introduced that he’s providing the federal government his firm xAI’s synthetic intelligence device, Grok, for the discount worth of 42 cents. Then once more, that’s 42 cents per federal company, so Musk may find yourself making just a few {dollars} off of the change.
“Thanks to President Trump and his administration, xAI’s frontier AI is now unlocked for every federal agency empowering the U.S. Government to innovate faster and accomplish its mission more effectively than ever before” Musk stated in an announcement obtained by The Hill.
“We look forward to continuing to work with President Trump and his team to rapidly deploy AI throughout the government for the benefit of the country,” he added.
The highly-discounted take care of the Basic Providers Administration shall be in impact for 18 months.
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Musk’s firm is becoming a member of different AI giants which have already introduced their items to the federal government. Final month, opponents like OpenAI and Anthropic supplied the federal government their tech for a whopping $1.
Now, it appears, Musk is placing apart any previous beef to get a stake within the ring-kissing race.
However in the event you’re asking, “Wasn’t he just accusing Trump of being on the Epstein list?” you then’re not alone.
After serving to to slash hundreds of federal employees—a few of whom have been rapidly rehired—and ending his haphazard try to make the federal government extra environment friendly, Musk got here for Trump’s jugular.
In June, the hair-plugged tech bro appeared to reignite the accusations of Trump’s title being on the notorious “list” of shoppers stored by Jeffrey Epstein, a financier and infamous intercourse offender who died whereas awaiting trial on costs of intercourse trafficking.
Regardless of strolling again his claims from that submit, Musk later doubled down on his method when Trump began calling the Epstein’s record a “hoax” created by the Democrats.
“Wow, amazing that Epstein ‘killed himself’ and Ghislaine is in federal prison for a hoax,” he wrote, referring to Epstein’s right-hand girl, Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding Epstein within the sexual abuse of underage ladies.
And the potential trillionaire additionally bashed his former bestie and GOP lackeys for supporting the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!” he tweeted in June.
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Then once more, AI leaders together with Musk are all vying for the following large authorities contract as Trump’s administration pushes ahead in its misguided race to make the U.S. the “AI capital of the world.”
And Musk, whereas vindictive behind a keyboard, has traditionally dominated together with his pockets.
