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Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Dude you can just fucking download open LLM models suited for particular tasks and get a semi competent team of programmers/IT/engineers to do whatever Grok does much better for a minute fraction of that cost. Talk about the department of government inefficiency.
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