White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump doesn’t want federal agencies to make contracts with xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by former Trump administration official Elon Musk.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Leavitt was asked if President Donald Trump supports “federal agencies contracting with Elon Musk’s AI company,” to which she responded, “I don’t think so, no.”
When asked if he would want the Department of Justice to cancel its contract with “Grok,” the name of the AI chatbot that xAI operates and a possible reference to “Grok for Government,” a suite of AI tools aimed at US government customers, Leavitt said, “I’ll talk to [Trump] about it, yes.”
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