On January 13, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service in Oracle’s Top Secret classified cloud regions. OCI Generative AI service provides large language models (LLMs) that can help customers running sensitive workloads tackle defense and intelligence challenges. With this newly added service, government agencies can leverage Oracle’s end-to-end approach to generative AI without the need for reengineering.
As generative AI rapidly advances, it’s vital for US defense and intelligence communities to harness its power in a trusted, secure environment like OCI. The company’s collaboration with key industry model providers such as xAI brings the latest high-performance models to Oracle’s classified cloud regions at an optimal price. This empowers defense and intelligence customers to run critical missions with access to cutting-edge AI technology, including xAI’s recent Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fast models, which excel at data extraction, code generation, and text summarization, according to the company.
“xAI and Oracle are helping to shape the future of generative AI’s role in running classified government workloads. Through this collaboration, defense and intelligence customers can now experience the extensive capabilities of OCI Generative AI service, driving efficiency by automating processes, generating content, and improving productivity while saving time, money, and resources,” said James Burnham, head of government affairs at xAI.
OCI Generative AI service uses dedicated AI clusters only accessible to the customer in their tenancy. Security of sensitive data is paramount—all data sent to the OCI Generative AI service is secure and private, remaining within the customer’s tenancy. xAI Grok models are hosted on the xAI platform with data processed on zero data retention endpoints, offering an extra layer of protection.
Source: Oracle
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By Loren Blinde
January 13, 2026
