The Pentagon has created a secure website, GenAI.mil, where military workers can use several powerful AI tools. GenAI.mil is a secure platform giving Department of Defense staff access to commercial frontier models without routing sensitive government data through consumer services.
The single portal will enable three million defence personnel to use commercial AI models on government systems. These models include Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok, with more than half of the Defense Department’s roughly three million workers having joined the system.
While Google Cloud's Gemini for Government products went live first, on August 31 the department added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government, supplied through Starshield, the national security arm associated with SpaceX and xAI.
More than 1.7 million unique users have already been onboarded out of roughly three million personnel. That is an adoption rate most enterprise software never reaches, in an organisation not known for rapid technology adoption.
Interestingly, Anthropic’s Claude was expected to be included, but it was not. Anthropic's leadership insisted on contractual guardrails that would prevent the department from applying its models to mass surveillance of Americans; the department did not accept those terms.
The Pentagon also designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk — a label ordinarily applied to companies whose products might expose military systems to infiltration by adversaries.
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