The FBI plans to spend as much as $88 million on artificial infrastructure to expand its AI capacity, Fedscoop reported Tuesday (Aug. 18), citing procurement documents.
The bureau is looking to procure servers, equipment and other hardware, and it is accepting proposals until next week, according to the report.
The FBI also aims to bring Google’s Gemini AI model on-premises with a licensing model based on allocated capacity, rather than per-seat or per-model, and the ability to shift capacity between models without extra charges, the report said.
Technology leaders across the government are eyeing AI costs at a time when the General Services Administration’s OneGov deals, which provided AI to federal workers for pennies, are set to expire and when the adoption of agentic AI is expected to drive up costs, per the report.
PYMNTS reported Aug. 21, 2025, that Google said it would be offering a complete AI platform to federal agencies and employees for 47 cents in the first year. The company’s Gemini for Government platform included enterprise search, image and video generation, a notetaking and research assistant, and agentic AI.
Google’s offer came shortly after rival AI providers launched similar programs aimed at the public sector.
In early August 2025, OpenAI rolled out OpenAI for Government, which made ChatGPT Enterprise available to federal agencies and their workers for $1 in the first year. A week later, Anthropic unveiled a similar program that made Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government available for $1 in the first year.
Some of the FBI’s AI uses cases include vehicle recognition, language identification and generation of text from speech samples, according to a page on its website.
A trained investigator or analyst assesses the output of the FBI’s AI systems before further substantive actions are taken, per the page.
“The FBI is aware of the benefits of AI, but we also recognize its limitations,” the page said. “The FBI’s policies and procedures for the collection, analysis and use of data for its investigations are designed to meet the highest standards of privacy, civil liberties, ethics and adherence to the U.S. Constitution.”