Microsoft (MS) is the primary company to supply AI models of OpenAI to US government agencies. It’s interpreted as an intention to take care of AI-related leadership by expanding the scope to government agencies following industrial customers.

Bloomberg reported on the seventh (local time) that Microsoft announced that OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3 models shall be available to Azure Government cloud users through the Azure OpenAI service.

There was no specific word on which government agencies are expected to make use of OpenAI’s large-scale language models, however the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and NASA are known to be customers of the Azure Government Cloud. As well as, the National Technology Information Center (DTIC) under the Department of Defense also announced that it has decided to experiment with the OpenAI model.

Microsoft has been providing open AI services only to industrial customers through the Azure cloud. As of the tip of May, the variety of air pressures using open AI services increased by about 2,500 from the previous quarter to about 4,500. These include Volvo, Ikea, Mercedes Benz, and Shell.

That is the primary time Microsoft has introduced GPT technology to Azure Government, which provides cloud solutions to US government agencies, and it’s considered considered one of the primary efforts as an organization to make chatbot technology available to the federal government.

Federal, state and native government customers can access the OpenAI GPT-4 and GPT-3 models through a chat-like interface to perform specific tasks, including content creation, cross-language translation and summarization. Nonetheless, you can’t access ChatGPT based on GPT-3.5.

Specifically, Azure Government Cloud, which supports various security and data compliance regulations required by government agencies, is physically separated from the Azure cloud utilized by industrial customers.

Microsoft emphasized that since the Azure Government Cloud is hosted in a separate space, all data sent to the model stays throughout the Azure Government Cloud, and data from Azure Government customers will not be used to coach AI models.

Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com