America.gov Launches With Gemini and Grok AI Under the Hood

The Trump administration's new government chatbot is powered by artificial intelligence from Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok, U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia said Tuesday.

"We have great partners behind the scenes," Gebbia told CNBC's "Squawk Box" shortly before the site, America.gov, went live around 10 a.m. ET.

Google and xAI did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment. xAI, Grok's developer, was acquired by SpaceX and renamed SpaceXAI.

The launch gives two of the country's most prominent AI companies a direct foothold in how Americans interact with the federal government online. Gebbia framed the scale of the problem the site aims to solve in concrete terms.

"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," Gebbia told CNBC.

The site debuted at a day-long event at Washington's Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, other administration officials and industry leaders attended.

"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," Trump said in a speech at the event.

The White House told CNBC the gathering will also include panel discussions on AI and other topics, including energy, health, space and agriculture.

The stakes extend beyond a single website. A conversational AI layer over government services touches an enormous audience — those 40 million daily interactions — and puts commercial models from Google and Musk's SpaceXAI in the path of citizens seeking federal information and services.

This is a developing story.