Microsoft plans to open the GPT-4 model to agencies such as the US Department of Defense and NASA

On June 8th, Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will open OpenAI's artificial intelligence model to its Azure Government cloud computing service customers. These clients include multiple US government agencies who will have access to major language models such as GPT-3 and GPT-4

On June 8th, Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will open OpenAI's artificial intelligence model to its Azure Government cloud computing service customers. These clients include multiple US government agencies who will have access to major language models such as GPT-3 and GPT-4.

Microsoft is the largest investor in OpenAI and uses the latter's technology to support its Bing Chatbot. Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday that Azure Government customers can now use OpenAI's two major language models: the company's latest and most powerful model GPT-4, and the early model GPT-3 launched through Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service.

Microsoft plans to publish a blog article about the project on Wednesday. Although some media saw the content in advance, they did not disclose the specific names of American institutions that can use the big language model at that time. It is reported that the US Department of Defense, the United States Department of Energy and NASA are all government customers of AzureGovernment service.

Officials from the Defense Technology Information Center (DTIC) under the US Department of Defense have confirmed that they will experiment with the OpenAI model through Microsoft's new product. This information center focuses on collecting and sharing military research results.

Microsoft has provided its commercial clients with the OpenAI model, and Azure OpenAI services have grown rapidly in recent months. Microsoft stated in May that the number of customers for this service has jumped from 2500 in the previous quarter to 4500, including companies such as Volvo, IKEA, Mercedes Benz, and Shell.

The initiative announced by Microsoft on Wednesday is the first time that a large company has opened Chatbot technology to US government agencies.

Since OpenAI publicly released the Chatbot ChatGPT at the end of 2022, people's interest in the big language model has soared. The big language model is trained based on a large amount of internet data and can generate responses similar to real people based on user prompts. Since then, large and small technology companies have begun to provide users with powerful Chatbot. The US Congress has also broken out discussions on whether and how artificial intelligence should be regulated.

Bill Chappell of Microsoft wrote in his blog that customers of federal, state and local governments in the United States can access OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-3 models to perform tasks such as generating answers to research questions, generating Computer code and summarizing on-site reports.

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that although Azure Government customers will be able to use models with chat interfaces, they will not be able to access ChatGPT. ChatGPT can usually be provided through Azure OpenAI services. Chapel previously worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research organization under the Department of Defense.

Microsoft hosts the OpenAI model in its commercial cloud computing space, which is separate from the cloud services used by Azure Government customers, as the latter requires compliance with various specific security and data compliance rules.

Chapel wrote that because Microsoft hosts models in its Azure infrastructure, any data sent to them is retained in the Azure OpenAI service. The company added that data from Azure Government clients will not be used to train artificial intelligence models. (Small)