OpenAI is handing ChatGPT Enterprise to the entire U.S. federal executive branch workforce, free, for a year.
OpenAI's government division has struck a deal with the General Services Administration — the federal government's central procurement agency — to make ChatGPT Enterprise available across the executive branch at essentially no cost. The partnership runs for one year. GSA's involvement matters more than it might look: the agency sets purchasing standards across the federal government, so landing here puts ChatGPT closer to a government-wide default than a departmental experiment. No price was disclosed; the company described the arrangement as costing "essentially" nothing.
Getting ChatGPT into federal workflows before competitors can negotiate comparable arrangements gives OpenAI a structural foothold in a massive, policy-shaping institution. A free year is also a textbook land-and-expand play — habits form, processes get built around the tool, and renewal conversations start from a position of dependency rather than open evaluation.
"Essentially no cost" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The renewal terms are not public.