Social media giant Meta announced on Monday that its open source artificial intelligence models will now be available for federal use through the General Services Administration's OneGov strategy. The agreement will provide agencies with access to Meta's 'Llama' models, which are freely accessible to use. GSA said it focused on verifying that Meta's models comply with federal requirements and can be consistently used across the government.
The deals were part of GSA's OneGov strategy, in which the government streamlines the acquisition of services by operating as one entity; that way individual federal agencies don't have to negotiate their own separate deals.
Not to be outdone by the makers of ChatGPT and Claude, who each agreed to sell their services to the government for $1 per agency, Google has agreed to even deeper discount terms, pitching its various government-capable AI products for just $0.47 per agency, valid through 2026. The half-a-buck Google AI deal is part of the General Services Administration's OneGov purchasing strategy that seeks to streamline the purchasing of products for federal agencies.