Microsoft to Provide OpenAI’s GPT Models to US Government Cloud Customers
In a blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft Corp announced that it will be utilizing its Azure cloud service to provide U.S. federal agencies with the language-generating models from OpenAI.
The Redmond, Washington-based company has added support for large language models (LLMs) using GPT-4 from the latest and most advanced OpenAI and GPT-3 LLMs to Azure Government.
Use by LLM companies has increased since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, in which Microsoft has a stake, and companies of all shapes and sizes are racing to build capabilities on top of them.
This is the first time Microsoft is bringing GPT technology to Azure Government, which provides cloud solutions for US government agencies, and is the first such attempt by a major company to bring chatbot technology to governments.
Microsoft usually offers it to Azure commercial cloud users through Azure OpenAI Services, which had 4,500 customers as of May.
Microsoft said government customers can customize language models for specific tasks, such as content creation, language-to-code translation, and summarization.
