The GSA’s AI safety team determined Grok 4 met its guidelines after testing, an agency official said.

Models are open source, giving agencies more control, the GSA said.

David Shive, the GSA’s CIO, says agencies have an “obligation” to “vet” models before implementing them.

The Office of Centralized Acquisition Services will leverage “one federal wallet,” GSA says.

The tech company will offer its AI workflow platform to the government at a steep discount.

The agency’s deputy administrator, who previously led GSA on an acting basis, has been named CEO of C3 AI.

The tech giant is also committing $20 million to help agencies implement its products and host “cost-optimization workshops.”

The OneGov deal gives Google a pricing edge over competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, which offer their models for $1 per federal agency.

The GSA is leveraging the State Department's “privacy-preserving” API for passport records to compare passport photos submitted to Login.gov.

Zach Whitman, the agency’s CAIO and CDO, acknowledged there are “drawbacks” to a shared service like USAi, but emphasized it is intended for agencies’ general use cases.