Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the best US stocks to buy according to Billionaires. On July 14, the US Department of Defense/DoD announced that it has awarded contracts worth ~$200 million each to 4 leading AI firms: OpenAI,

The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.

OpenAI, Alphabet's Google , Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts of up to $200 million each, aimed at scaling up adoption of advanced AI capabilities in the U.S. Department of Defense,

The Pentagon has awarded $800 million in AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI to enhance military, intelligence.

The past month has been especially bruising for OpenAI. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has raided the company for some of its top AI talent, luring away roughly a dozen elite researchers with promises of big money, greater autonomy, and a shared mission to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

AI, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI received contracts worth up to $200 million to help the Pentagon incorporate artificial intelligence into national