“Federal agencies can now significantly transform their operations by using the tools in ‘Gemini for Government’, thanks to this agreement with Google and the Trump Administration’s leadership revolutionizing AI for the U.S. government,” GSA acting Administrator Michael Rigas said in a statement praising President Donald Trump’s push to incentivize the public and private sectors to embrace AI.

“GSA is dedicated to rapidly achieving President Trump’s goals to accelerate AI adoption across government, and this agreement with Google is the latest success in meeting that goal,” Rigas continued. 

The new contract marks the latest step in AI becoming embedded in government after the Pentagon recently announced a deal with X’s Grok. The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office announced a slew of contracts, granted to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI, for use by the Department of Defense. The contracts are giving up to $200 million to each company. 

Trump has issued multiple executive orders seeking to expand AI’s reach, including through the release of his AI Action Plan last month, partly to assert technological dominance over leading global competitors such as China. 

Google in April said it would offer steep discounts to federal agencies for its cloud-based business apps productivity package, reaching an agreement with GSA to offer its Workspace tools to agencies at a 71% discount. 

“Building on our Workspace offer for federal employees, Gemini for Government gives federal agencies access to our full stack approach to AI innovation, including tools like NotebookLM and Veo, powered by our latest models and our secure cloud infrastructure, so they can deliver on their important missions,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement. 

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Aside from Google, a slew of other leading tech companies have begun offering heavily discounted AI products to the federal government. 

Among them is Sam Altman’s OpenAI, which recently began offering ChatGPT to agencies for a $1 annual fee. Larry Ellison’s Oracle has also offered agencies a 75% discount on its license-based software, including databases and analytics.