OpenAI's $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft
OpenAI said Monday the U.S. Department of Defense granted it a contract for up to $200 million to help the agency identify and build prototype systems that use its frontier models for administrative tasks and more. Given how heavily some powerful people in Silicon Valley have warned of the dangers of China's advanced LLM models, it's not surprising the DoD wants to use OpenAI for whatever purposes it wants. For instance, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, an OpenAI investor, recentl ...