The U.S. government has approved Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic as vendors for artificial intelligence services to civilian federal agencies, according to Bloomberg.
These companies will provide their AI tools through the new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS). This platform allows government agencies to access AI tool vendors with pre-negotiated contracts, eliminating individual negotiations.
The General Services Administration (GSA), responsible for the MAS, assessed these tech companies for security and performance. This development follows executive orders by President Donald Trump concerning AI development.
One such directive involved adjusting environmental standards to increase energy supply for data centers. Another order mandated that federal agencies use only AI that is “free from ideological bias.”
