Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it will offer OpenAI’s robust language-generating models to U.S. federal agencies through its Azure cloud service.
Microsoft, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, has updated Azure Government to work with the latest and most advanced large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, GPT-4.
Since OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, in which Microsoft has a share, LLMs have seen a meteoric rise in popularity, and companies of all sizes are scrambling to develop new capabilities.
This is the first time a major corporation has made an effort to make chatbot technology available to governments. Microsoft is making history by bringing the GPT technology to Azure federal, which offers cloud solutions to U.S. federal organizations.
Azure OpenAI Services, which Microsoft normally gives to commercial cloud users of Azure, counted 4,500 customers as of May.
According to Microsoft, government clients can modify the language models for use in various contexts, including content creation, translation into code, and summarization.