OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It’s called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use. CNBC reported.
The Microsoft-backed company bills the new platform as a step beyond ChatGPT Enterprise as far as security. It allows government agencies, as customers, to feed “non-public, sensitive information” into OpenAI’s models while operating within their own secure hosting environments, OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil told reporters during a briefing Monday.
The user interface for ChatGPT Gov looks like ChatGPT Enterprise. The main difference is that government agencies will use ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud, or Azure Government community cloud, so they can “manage their own security, privacy and compliance requirements,” Felipe Millon, who leads federal sales and go-to-market for OpenAI, said on the call with reporters.
OpenAI posted: We believe the U.S. government’s adoption of artificial intelligence can boost efficiency and is crucial for maintaining and enhancing America’s global leadership in this technology. At OpenAI, we’re building AI to help people solve hard problems, and we see enormous potential for these tools to support the public sector in tackling complex challenges — from improving public health and infrastructure to strengthening national security.
By making our products available to the U.S. government, we aim to ensure AI serves the national interest and the public good, align with democratic values, while empowering policymakers to responsibly integrate these capabilities to deliver better services to the American people.
Agencies can deploy ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial or cloud or Azure Government cloud on top of Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Self-hosting ChatGPT Gov enables agencies to more easily manage their own security, privacy, and compliance requirements, such as stringent cybersecurity frameworks (IL5, CJIS, ITAR, FedRAMP High).
Additionally, we believe this infrastructure will expedite internal authorization of OpenAI’s tools for the handling of non-public sensitive data. Use of ChatGPT Gov is subject to our usage policies, like other OpenAI services.
Reuters reported: Microsoft-backed Intelligence (AI) bellwether OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a tailored version of ChatGPT designed for U.S. government agencies, it said in a blog post.
OpenAI said the agencies can deploy ChatGPT in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud, and will have access to many of the feature and capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise, including custom GPTs.
The launch comes hours after CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that the company will “pull up some releases,” making his first public statement after the low-cost Chinese AI startup DeepSeek jolted AI-linked stocks on Monday.
In my opinion, it is probably a good idea for U.S. government agencies to teach their workers how to use OpenAI properly.