The US government has taken an important step towards temporary artificial intelligence in federal operations by adding Openai, Google and Anthropic to its approved AI suppliers list.
This decision, announced by the General Services Administration (GSA), opens the doors for a generalized adoption of advanced AI technologies such as Chatgpt, Gemini and Claude between civil agencies, marking a major change in Washington’s approach in terms of automation and digital governance.
By integrating the three companies into its multiple reward calendar – a supply platform which offers pre -negotiated contracts – GSA accelerates federal access to commercial AI tools. The agency said that the models had been checked both for performance and security, although the contract conditions are not disclosed. In similar past offers, the GSA obtained important discounts from software giants like Adobe, Salesforce and Google.
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The assistant administrator of the GSA, Stephen Ehikian, underlined the wider objective of the agency: to equip all the federal employees with powerful digital tools.
“We are unable to choose winners or losers here,” he said. “There will be different tools for different use cases.”
However, the Openai, Google and the early inclusion of Anthropic highlight the path traveled in regulatory compliance compared to other companies which are still sailing on the obstacles of federal purchases. GSA officials have confirmed that other AI sellers would be taken into account in due course.
A presidential mandate: not “woke up”
The deployment occurs only a few days after President Donald Trump signed three decrees in reshaping government relations with AI. Central directives is a mandate that all federal agencies get linguistic models “free from ideological bias”, an apparent reprimand of what Trump has repeatedly nicknamed “Woke IA”.
The implementation of this ideological filter will vary the agency by agency, noted the leaders of the GSA, but the policy already influences federal discourse around algorithmic equity and the transparency of the model.
“It’s a race, right?” said Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the GSA Federal Acquisition Service. “And as the president said, we are going to win this race.”
The urgency reflects growing geopolitical issues in AI supremacy. The administration hopes to reduce the gap between federal capacities and the private sector, or even rival nations such as China, by accelerating adoption through civil government.
Beyond the defense: civil agencies are now ready
While the national security agencies such as the Pentagon have already awarded ia contracts to the XAI of Openai and Elon Musk, the announcement on Tuesday considerably widens the civil imprint of the AI. Agencies such as the Treasury Department and the Staff Management Office (OPM) have expressed their interest in deploying these tools for practical and high volume tasks.
Potential use cases include the detection of fraud at IRS, automation of patent examination at the American patent and brands office, subsidy to the education department and even the modification of press releases.
Scott Kupor, director of OPM, said that he was considering that AI was used to create customer service boots and digest thousands of public comments on federal regulations – a task that has long slowed the regulatory processes. But he also recognized a talented gap within the government.
“We will probably miss people who know very modern things related to AI,” admitted Kupor. “Obviously, we cannot just throw things against the wall and see what sticks.”
A wider commercial change
This federal embrace arrives at a pivotal moment for AI sellers. Many of these companies – including Openai and Anthropic – navigate fierce competition not only for business customers but also for the best engineering talents. As revealed by recent interviews, Openai has even become protective of its most popular debugurs, hiding their identity for the concern of poaching, in particular by Meta and other rivals of Silicon Valley.
In this sense, GSA’s announcement is more than a simple bureaucratic update. It reports Washington’s deeper commitment in the AI arms race – the one where players are not only governments but technological titans with global scope and ideological agendas. And with the executive orders of Trump which now sets the tone, the Federal AI market is not content to grow – it is reshaped.
