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Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Dude you can just fucking download open LLM models suited for particular tasks and get a semi competent team of programmers/IT/engineers to do whatever Grok does much better for a minute fraction of that cost. Talk about the department of government inefficiency.
Where are you going to deploy it? On your laptop?
They want to use mecha hitler without having to build mecha hitler
They went and built the torment nexus...
They can't not use it!
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