Rashi Shrivastava is a reporter covering technology with a focus in artificial intelligence. She writes a weekly Forbes newsletter on all things AI called The Prompt. She joined Forbes in January 2022 and is based in Upstate New York.
The ChatGPT maker is now working with Carahsoft , a billionaire-owned government contractor that helps tech companies provide their software to the Pentagon .Helmed by CEO Sam Altman , OpenAI started working with Carahsoft earlier this year and was added to a defense contract vehicle in May, as the contractor fights claims it has been overcharging the Pentagon .
OpenAI confirmed it was added to the CHESS contract in May, shortly after it started working with Carahsoft. To date, it hasn’t executed a contract with the DoD via the vehicle, but Carahsoft has helped it land other government contracts. In the last year, Carahsoft sold ChatGPT licenses worth $108,000 to NASA, and over $70,000 in unspecified OpenAI licenses to the National Gallery of Art, according to contracting records reviewed by. In September, it signed a $100,000 contract with the U.S.
Since its founding in 2004, Carahsoft has become one of the most profitable government tech contractors by acting as a liaison between some of the world’s biggest companies and local and federal departments, helping those agencies use products from companies like Amazon, Google and Salesforce. Helmed by president and billionaire founder, the Virginia-based company serves almost all federal government branches, but the Pentagon is by far its biggest client.
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