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Anthony Jancso, cofounder of the government tech startup AccelerateX, is spearheading a project to deploy AI agents across US federal agencies. This initiative aims to automate tasks currently performed by tens of thousands of federal workers, potentially freeing up 70,000 full-time employees for more impactful work. Jancso announced the hiring for this ‘DOGE orthogonal project’ via a Slack post, which was met with mixed reactions from former Palantir colleagues. AccelerateX, initially known as AccelerateSF, has received support from organizations such as OpenAI and Anthropic, though the latter clarified they did not invest directly in the startup. The company’s mission shifted from local AI hackathons to modernizing US government technology systems.