The Trump administration launched America.gov on Tuesday, a government chatbot powered by Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, aimed at helping the 40 million people who interact with federal websites daily.
The Trump administration unveiled America.gov on Tuesday, a new government chatbot designed to help Americans navigate official federal websites, with U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia confirming the platform runs on artificial intelligence from Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok.
Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb and the administration's chief design officer at the National Design Studio, made the disclosure in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box" shortly before the site went live around 10 a.m. ET.
"We have great partners behind the scenes," Gebbia told CNBC. He did not detail the financial or contractual terms of either technology partnership.
The launch took place at a day-long event held at Washington's Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, attended by President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and a range of administration officials and industry leaders.
Trump framed the platform in expansive terms during remarks at the event. "It's not just simply a website. It's a restoration of America's founding promise, and it's a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond," the president said.
Gebbia cited the scale of the problem the platform aims to address. "Every day, 40 million people interact with a government website trying to get something done. And I think we could all agree that we wish it was better," he told CNBC.
Grok is developed by xAI, which was acquired by SpaceX and subsequently renamed SpaceXAI. Neither Google nor SpaceXAI responded to requests for comment ahead of publication.
The day's program at the Mellon Auditorium was set to include panel discussions covering AI alongside topics such as energy, health, space, and agriculture, according to the White House.
The launch of America.gov places two competing AI ecosystems — Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok — inside a single federal product, a configuration that reflects the administration's approach of drawing from multiple private-sector AI providers rather than committing exclusively to one. How the two models are integrated, and which handles which types of queries, had not been disclosed as of Tuesday morning.
With 40 million daily interactions across federal websites as the baseline, America.gov represents one of the largest-scale public deployments of commercial AI chatbot technology by a government to date. How the platform handles data privacy, accuracy, and referrals to authoritative federal sources is expected to draw scrutiny from lawmakers and civil society groups in the weeks ahead.
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