In hot pursuit of those juicy defense dollars, OpenAI has signed a new contract with the U.S. National Laboratories to “supercharge their scientific research” with OpenAI’s latest o1-series confabulation bots. [OpenAI]

OpenAI and Microsoft will install o1 or a later model onsite at Los Alamos National Laboratory for use by Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs.

One thing these labs work on is nuclear weapons. OpenAI is delighted to help LANL’s “comprehensive program in nuclear security, focused on reducing the risk of nuclear war and securing nuclear materials and weapons worldwide.”

Other planned uses include “identifying new approaches to treating and preventing disease” — presumably not vaccines in this administration. LANL started evaluating OpenAI models for “bioscience research” in July. [OpenAI]

Confidential data leaks that violate need-to-know in this high security environment are presumably being assumed not to be a problem, even though they’ve been a huge problem everywhere else that Microsoft has deployed OpenAI’s chatbots.

Sam Altman announced the deal at the company event “Building to Win: AI Economics” in Washington, DC on Thursday. OpenAI is also selling ChatGPT Gov, using GPT-4o, as hard as it can. [CNBC; OpenAI]

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