OpenAI bags $200 million contract from US defense department

OpenAI has won a $200 million contract for a pilot program aimed at helping the US Defense Department determine how it could use artificial intelligence for a range of administrative and security tasks.

The one-year contract, which the Defense Department disclosed Monday, is the latest push by the ChatGPT-maker to sell its technology to the US government.

In a blog post Monday, OpenAI said the contract is the company’s first project under a new entity it’s calling OpenAI for Government.

As part of the effort, OpenAI will work with the Defense…