The United States Department of Defense is announcing its own custom AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised that the platform “puts the world’s most powerful AI models in the hands of every American warfighter” and will “make our armed forces more lethal than ever.”
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In a video, Hegseth declares that "the future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled A-I."
In a press release, Google outlined use cases that sound less aggressive. The new platform, Google said, can enable tasks such as “summarizing policy manuals, creating project-specific compliance checklists, extracting key terms from statements of work, and creating detailed risk assessments for operational planning.” The company said employees can only use the platform for non- classified work and that data from it “is never used to train Google’s public models.”
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Anyone can visit GenAI.mil, but if they're not on a Department of Defense network, they'll simply see a pop-up window saying they're not authorized to access.
In a keynote speech on Tuesday, the Pentagon's Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, said the platform will offer other AI models in the future.
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The company has previously won contracts with the Department of Defense related to AI, including the controversial Project Maven drone program . It also recently reversed a commitment to avoid using AI for weapons systems or surveillance.
