The US General Services Administration on 5 Aug added OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to its list of approved artificial-intelligence suppliers, clearing ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude for purchase by civilian federal agencies through the government’s Multiple Award Schedule. GSA officials said the designation, part of President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, is intended to speed adoption of generative-AI tools across more than two million federal workers while maintaining requirements on security, transparency and bias mitigation. A day after the approval, OpenAI announced a partnership with GSA that will make ChatGPT Enterprise available to every agency in the federal executive branch for a nominal fee of $1 per agency for the next 12 months. The offer provides access to the company’s latest frontier models, a 60-day period of unlimited advanced features and tailored training resources delivered with partners such as Slalom and Boston Consulting Group. The steep discount is likely to give OpenAI an early advantage over rivals as agencies evaluate AI software for research, document drafting and other routine tasks. GSA encouraged other domestic AI vendors to propose similar terms, and noted that agencies are under no obligation to renew the arrangement after the trial year ends.