In its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Gov. Guess what organizations they created it for? 😉

As reported by CNBC (OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies, written by Hayden Field and available here), 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.

OpenAI 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.

Since the beginning of 2024, OpenAI said that more than 90,000 employees of federal, state and local governments have generated more than 18 million prompts within ChatGPT, using the tech to translate and summarize documents, write and draft policy memos, generate code, and build applications.

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.

An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC that the company acknowledges there are special considerations for government use of AI, and OpenAI wrote in a blog post Tuesday that the product is subject to its usage policies.

ChatGPT Enterprise, which underpins ChatGPT Gov, is currently going through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, and has not yet been accredited for use on nonpublic data. Weil told CNBC it’s a “long process,” adding that he couldn’t provide a timeline.

It will be interesting to see if government agencies embrace ChatGPT Gov, and if so, how quickly. It’s somewhat surprising that 90,000 government employees have already generated more than 18 million prompts within ChatGPT. I would think most of those are state and local, but that’s just a guess.

So, what do you think? Do you think government agencies – especially Federal government agencies – will embrace ChatGPT Gov? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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