In a week dominated by headlines about China’s growing AI competitiveness, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov. The new version of the AI-powered chatbot platform is designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech.
ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. Using the platform, agencies can deploy certain OpenAI models on Microsoft Azure commercial or government clouds. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Gov enables agencies to more easily manage their own security, privacy, and compliance, and could expedite internal authorization of OpenAI’s tools for the handling of non-public sensitive data.
OpenAI claims that, since 2024, more than 90,000 users across more than 3,500 U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies have sent over 18 million messages on ChatGPT to support their day-to-day work.
