It’s Christmas in August – at least, for those tech-wonks who are interested in new model releases. Today’s news is a very full stocking of brand new LLM editions from three of the biggies – OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Artificial intelligence (AI) models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have been added to a government purchasing system, allowing federal agencies to buy and use the AI products. The General Services Administration (GSA) announced Tuesday that ChatGPT,

The US government’s central purchasing arm is adding OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Anthropic to a list of approved artificial intelligence vendors, opening the door to widespread adoption of the technology across civilian federal agencies.