Overview

• Wired reports that GSA leadership abruptly pulled Grok from its Multiple Award Schedule after the chatbot’s July antisemitic meltdown
• xAI has not updated its Grok for Government site to reflect the removal and the GSA has declined to publicly confirm its reasoning
• In a statement, GSA emphasizes an ongoing, impartial evaluation of AI tools that prioritizes data security and reliability
• Despite losing GSA listing, xAI’s separate Department of Defense contract, valued at roughly $200 million, remains on track
• xAI issued an apology for Grok’s offensive outputs, scrubbed the problematic content and now faces increased scrutiny over its safety safeguards