AI companies are chasing government users with steep discounts
AI firms are wooing government clients with rock-bottom deals: OpenAI and Anthropic now offer ChatGPT and Claude to federal agencies for just $1 a year. xAI’s mid-July launch of Grok for Government intensifies the competition. Anthropic even outbid OpenAI by extending its offer across all three government branches. This race shows how quickly AI providers are moving to embed their chatbots in public-sector workflows.