By Kevin Gora
Publication Date: 2025-11-19 13:44:00
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EXCLUSIVE: The General Services Administration struck a deal with Perplexity AI to offer the company’s artificial intelligence services to every government agency for 25 cents each, making it its 21st contract under the OneGov initiative.
The deal is the first of its kind, under the initiative to modernize how the government purchases goods and services, to offer a direct-to-consumer product for federal agencies. Previous deals the supply-side agency has made historically were through middle-man agencies, which help resell contracts to the government at a higher cost.
Perplexity’s AI services will allow federal workers to access real-time information that combines internet-scale knowledge with connections to the government’s technological systems to assist with day-to-day duties. GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service commissioner, Josh Gruenbaum, told FOX Business that this type of deal is “essential for integrating AI into federal government.”
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The deal is the first of its kind, under the initiative to modernize how the government purchases goods and services, to offer a direct-to-consumer product for federal agencies. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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