The Google brand logo hangs above the entrance to the Google Building, formerly known as Union Inland Terminal in January of 2023. Google's parent company Alphabet made a deal Thursday with the U.S. government to use its Gemini AI. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. government struck a deal with Google to use its artificial intelligence and other applications for 47 cents, underbidding other AI partners.
The U.S. General Services Administration, or GSA, announced Thursday in a press release it has a contract with Google that will "provide a suite of AI and cloud services that will accelerate the adoption of AI across government" as per the Trump administration's "America's AI Action Plan."
Under the agreement, agencies will have access to Google's enterprise search, pre-packaged AI agents on Deep Research, the NotebookLM AI tool and video and image generation capabilities, among other offerings for 47 cents per agency for Google's AI complement through 2026.
"Today we're introducing Gemini for Government in partnership with the General Services Administration," Google posted to social media Thursday. "Government agencies will get access to our secure, FedRAMP-authorized, comprehensive AI platform priced at less than [50 cents] per government agency for a year."
