The Department of Defense tapped Google's Gemini for the first major deployment of its new generative AI platform, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Tuesday.

Why it matters: The rollout appears to be one of the first mass deployments of a commercially created generative AI tool across the entire Pentagon. • "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled A-I," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video posted on X.

Driving the news: The Defense Department said Tuesday it will deploy Gemini for Government through the new GenAI.mil platform so employees can use it on their work computers. • Pentagon employees can use Gemini in the new platform to "conduct deep research, format documents and even analyze video or imagery in unprecedented speed," Hegseth said in the vi

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