America's federal government is building a website and API called ai.gov to "accelerate government innovation with AI", according to an early version [1]spotted by 404 Media that was posted on GitHub by the U.S. government's General Services Administration.

That site "is supposed to launch on July 4," according to 404 Media's report, "and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI..."

> AI.gov appears to be an early step toward pushing AI tools into agencies across the government, code published on Github shows....

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> The early version of the page suggests that its API will integrate with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic products. But code for the API shows they are also working on integrating with Amazon Web Services' Bedrock and Meta's LLaMA. The page suggests it will also have an AI-powered chatbot, though it doesn't explain what it will do... Currently, AI.gov redirects to whitehouse.gov. The demo website is linked to from Github ( [2]archive here ) and is hosted on cloud.gov on what appears to be a staging environment. The text on the page does not show up on other websites, suggesting that it is not generic placeholder text...

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> In February, 404 Media obtained leaked audio from a meeting in which [the director of the GSA's Technology Transformation Services] told his team they would be creating "AI coding agents" that would write software across the entire government, and said he wanted to use AI to analyze government contracts.



[1] https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/

[2] https://archive.is/hfl2Z?ref=404media.co