# Google, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to provide the US federal government with early access to their latest AI models.

*genai · news · 2026-05-05 · Firstpost*

## Key points

- Google, Microsoft, and xAI will give the US government pre-release access to their newest AI models.
- The Center for AI Standards and Innovation will lead model evaluations before public deployment.
- Microsoft separately signed a similar AI security agreement with the UK's AI Security Institute.
- CAISI has completed over 40 evaluations on advanced AI models not yet publicly available.
- Anthropic is excluded from a recent Pentagon partnership due to an ethics dispute with Trump officials.

**Companies:** Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Reflection AI
**Countries:** United States, United Kingdom

[Read the full story on Firstpost](https://www.firstpost.com/tech/microsoft-google-and-xai-grant-us-early-access-to-ai-models-for-security-testing-14007960.html)

---

Canonical: https://newsio.io/n/17845abb-b350-441a-939b-f32ec43fa141/google-microsoft-and-xai-have-agreed-to-provide-the-us-federal-government-with-e
Summarized by Newsio from Firstpost. https://newsio.io/how-it-works