Microsoft grants GPT-4 access to US government agencies

ChatGPT and other types of artificial intelligence have gained a lot of importance in recent months, and now Microsoft has given its users its cloud service. Azure Government, which includes several United States government agenciesAccess to AI models from OpenAI.

The tech giant is the biggest investor in OpenAI and is using its technology to power the chatbot Bing. Azure Government customers can now enjoy two of OpenAI’s great language models: Powerful new GPT-4 and predecessor GPT-3 via Azure OpenAI service.

Microsoft did not name a specific agency that will be part of the program. but the Department of Defense, Department of Energy and NASA Among federal government customers using Azure Government.

A DTIC official said the Defense Technical Information Center, a part of the government’s Department of Defense dedicated to collecting and sharing military research, will programmatically experience OpenAI models.

Federal, state, and local government customers can access OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3 templates. tasks such as answering research questions, generating computer code, and summarizing field reportsAs Microsoft’s Bill Chappell wrote in a statement on the company’s blog.

Microsoft already offers OpenAI templates to its commercial customers. in May, The company announced that it has 4,500 customers., which marks an increase from the previous quarter by 2,500. Companies that use the service include Volvo, Ikea, Mercedes-Benz Group and Shell.

Interest in large language models trained on large internet datasets to predict and produce human-like responses to user stimuli has skyrocketed since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot went public in late 2022. Tech companies big and small are starting to offer users powerful chatbots.