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Title: OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Enterprise to the executive branch workforce
for $1

Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:58:12 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-giving-...

OpenAI has announced that it will be partnering with the US General Services
Administration (GSA) to offer ChatGPT Enterprise practically free of charge
to the entire executive-branch federal workforce for one year. The dozens of
agencies under this umbrella encompass over two million civilian workers.
Each agency will be able to access ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 for the year-
long period. The year-long trial will also include an additional 60 days of
ChatGPT's most advanced models like Deep Research and Advanced Voice Mode
with no use limits. This comes one day after the GSA approved OpenAI, Google
and Anthropic for the federal AI vendor list.

In the blog post announcing the partnership, OpenAI said: "This effort
delivers on a core pillar of the Trump AdministrationΓÇÖs AI Action Plan by
making powerful AI tools available across the federal government so that
workers can spend less time on red tape and paperwork, and more time doing
what they came to public service to do: serve the American people."

Part of the administration's plan calls for any AI used in the federal
government to be free of ideological bias, yet simultaneously President
TrumpΓÇÖs ΓÇ£Preventing Woke AIΓÇ¥ executive order directs that AI must not
favor "ideological dogmas such as DEI." How OpenAI will deal with the
administration's own ideological slant remains to be seen. Current attempts
at creating a "maximally truth-seeking AI" have not gone as planned.

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI will not use data from federal workers to
train or improve ChatGPT. Addressing whether the $1 price point will buy
future loyalty from the current administration, commissioner of the GSA's
Federal Acquisition Service Josh Gruenbaum told Bloomberg that no agency
would be required to renew after the first year. "These technologies are
changing and evolving at breakneck speed. We donΓÇÖt want to commit
ourselves. This is almost like itΓÇÖs a trial run in some ways." CEO of
OpenAI Sam Altman had previously donated $1 million to President TrumpΓÇÖs
inauguration fund.

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