The White House has reportedly instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to “ASAP” add Elon Musk‘s xAI and its Grok chatbot to a list of approved vendors for government use. The report that appeared in WIRED quotes an email obtained by the publication. The email, sent earlier this week by GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum, stated, “Team: Grok/xAI needs to go back on the schedule ASAP per the WH.” The message, which had the subject line “xAI add Grok-4,” instructed staff to “get with Carahsoft on this immediately.” Carahsoft is a major government contractor that resells technology from third-party firms.The directive follows a previously scuttled partnership with xAI that fell apart earlier this summer after Grok was reported to have generated content praising Hitler and other antisemitic beliefs on the social media platform X.The report added that the email seemed to refer to Grok 3 and Grok 4, noting, “Should be all of their products we had previously (3 & 4).” Sources confirmed to WIRED that Carahsoft’s contract has since been modified to include xAI. As of Friday morning, Grok 3 and Grok 4 were listed on GSA Advantage, an online marketplace for government agencies. This listing allows any federal agency to now acquire and deploy the chatbot.

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According to a previous report, federal workers were surprised when GSA leadership pressed for a contract with xAI in June, given Grok’s history of erratic behavior and uncensored responses. The GSA had removed Grok from its long-term government contracting platform after the chatbot’s controversial statements on Hitler in July. Grok was caught doing widespread praise of Hitler and the spouting of other antisemitic beliefs on Twitter. When the GSA announced new partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google earlier this month, xAI was notably absent from the list.The email also comes amid Musk’s complex relationship with the administration. Although he recently stepped back from a public role in President Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” many of his associates continue to advocate for the group’s cost-cutting and “AI-first” agenda within the government.