"The General Services Administration (GSA), the government's purchasing arm, plans to add Llama to its approved list for federal agencies. Josh Gruenbaum, the GSA's procurement lead, stated that this approval ensures the free tool meets government security and legal standards, allowing agencies to experiment with it. Llama is a large language model capable of processing data, including text, video, images and audio."
"The companies agreed to sell their paid products at steep discounts and meet the government's security requirements, GSA has said. "It's not about currying favor," Gruenbaum said when asked whether tech executives are giving the government discounts to get President Donald Trump's approval. "It's about that recognition of how do we all lock in arms and make this country the best country it could possibly be.""
The General Services Administration will add Meta's Llama to the approved list of AI tools available to federal agencies, enabling agencies to experiment with the free model after meeting government security and legal requirements. Llama can process text, video, images and audio and can be used to speed contract review and troubleshoot IT issues. The GSA has similarly approved AI offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI after vendors agreed to steep discounts and security concessions. GSA procurement lead Josh Gruenbaum framed vendor cooperation as a national-strengthening effort. Separately, Google faces a trial over alleged online advertising monopoly practices.
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