public.ai is for sale

public.ai sits on two converging trends with government-grade evidence behind both. First, public-sector AI procurement: in August 2025, the U.S. GSA struck a OneGov deal giving every participating federal agency ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 per agency, with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic models all approved onto GSA's Multiple Award Schedule for federal, state, and local buyers. Second, public AI as open infrastructure: Switzerland's Apertus model launched in September 2025 with fully open weights, data, and methods, distributed through the Public AI network. The phrase now spans government procurement and open public-infrastructure AI.

Procurement Federal AI at $1 per participating agency (GSA, 2025) GSA announced an August 2025 OneGov agreement with OpenAI making ChatGPT Enterprise available to every participating U.S. federal agency for a nominal fee of $1 for one year.

Public AI Movement Apertus: a Swiss public-institution, fully open model ETH Zurich said EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS released Apertus on September 2, 2025, with fully open architecture, weights, training data, and methods; 8B and 70B models; 15T training tokens across more than 1,000 languages; and distribution through the Public AI network.

Public Capital EUR 200B in EU public-private AI investment The European Commission said InvestAI aims to mobilize EUR 200 billion for AI, including a new EUR 20 billion European fund for AI gigafactories.

Procurement

Federal AI at $1 per participating agency (GSA, 2025)

GSA and OpenAI announced a OneGov partnership making ChatGPT Enterprise available to every participating U.S. federal agency for a nominal $1 fee for one year — replacing pricing that had previously run $191 annually per user.

Public AI Movement

Apertus: a Swiss public-institution, fully open model

EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS released Apertus in September 2025 — trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages, with architecture, weights, data, and methods fully documented — available via Swisscom, Hugging Face, and the Public AI network. Its maintainers frame it as proof AI can be public infrastructure like highways, water, or electricity.

Public Capital

EUR 200B in EU public-private AI investment

The European Commission's InvestAI initiative aims to mobilize EUR 200 billion for AI, including a new EUR 20 billion European fund for AI gigafactories built as public-private partnerships.