Users of Microsoft's Azure Government service can now access artificial intelligence (AI) models from OpenAI, including the latest version of GPT-4.
On June 7, Microsoft announced that Azure Government customers now have access to two of OpenAI’s major language models: GPT-4 and its predecessor, GPT-3. The software giant did not name specific US agencies that are expected to use these AI applications, but the Department of Defense , Department of Energy, and NASA are known to be among the government customers.
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), the US Department of Defense agency responsible for collecting and sharing military research, will test Microsoft's new product, a DTIC official confirmed.
Microsoft has previously offered AI models to commercial customers through its rapidly growing Azure OpenAI service. By May, the Windows maker said it had 4,500 customers using the service, up from 2,500 the previous quarter, including Volvo AB, Ikea, Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Shell Plc. The initiative, announced June 7, is the first known effort by a major company to widely offer chatbot technology to the U.S. government.
Accordingly, federal, state, and local government agencies can use GPT 4 and 3 to perform tasks such as generating answers to research questions, generating computer code, and summarizing field reports. However, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that Azure Government users will not have specific access to ChatGPT.
Additionally, user data submitted to the network will remain on a private network compared to the commercial version storage space and will not be used to train future AI models.
(According to Bloomberg)
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