ChatGPT is the clear winner in the AI spending race inside the U.S. House of Representatives. OpenAI’s chatbot accounted for nearly $9 out of every $10 that House offices, committees, and institutional accounts spent on identifiable AI tools during the 12 months ending March 31, according to a new CNBC analysis. The business news outlet examined House disbursement records that specifically named AI vendors. The findings do not provide a complete picture of AI use in Congress, but they offer a peek at which tools lawmakers and their staff are paying for. CNBC identified $113,740 in total spending on named AI vendors during a 12-month-period. ChatGPT accounted for $100,580 of that amount across 798 transactions. Anthropic’s Claude came in a distant second, accounting for $13,160 across just 37 transactions.
It’s important to note that the analysis does not include the Senate because its spending reports do not identify software vendors in the same way. It also excludes free AI accounts and tools bundled into larger software contracts. Congress is almost certainly using and spending more on AI than these figures suggest. Still, the available records show that ChatGPT has become a dominant AI tool inside the House.
