OpenAI Announced on January 28th ChatGPT GovThis is the first time since the Enterprise Edition ChatGPT The company's most significant product release since launch.ChatGPT Gov is designed specifically for U.S. government agencies and is intended to provide a higher level of security than ChatGPT Enterprise.
According to Kevin Weil, OpenAI's chief product officer, theThe platform allows government agencies to feed "non-public, sensitive information" into OpenAI's models while running them in their own secure hosting environment.
OpenAI says more than 90,000 federal, state, and local government employees have generated more than 18 million prompts in ChatGPT since the beginning of 2024, using the technology to translate and summarize documents, write policy memos, generate code, and build applications.
The user interface of ChatGPT Gov is similar to that of ChatGPT Enterprise.The main difference is that government agencies will use ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure Business Cloud or Azure Government Community CloudThe company's goal is to "self-manage security, privacy and compliance requirements," Felipe Millon, OpenAI's head of federal sales and marketing, said at a press conference.
An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC that the company recognizes that there are special considerations for the government's use of AI and noted in a Tuesday blog post that the product is subject to its usage policy.OpenAI Solutions Engineer Aaron Wilkowitz showed the press a demo of ChatGPT Gov that simulated how a new government employee would Aaron Wilkowitz, an OpenAI solutions engineer, showed a demo of ChatGPT Gov to the press, simulating how a new government employee would use the platform to create a work plan, analyze the printed plan, and translate it into different languages.
The enterprise version of ChatGPT, which underpins ChatGPT Gov, is currently under review by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and has not yet been certified to handle nonpublic data. Will said the process is "time-consuming" and could not provide a specific timeline. However, he revealed that the government is also considering ways to streamline the process in order to bring more modern software tools into the government to make it more efficient.
Nonetheless, Miron said ChatGPT Gov will be available "in the near future," and customers could begin testing and using the product "within a month. He expects organizations with sensitive data, such as the defense, law enforcement and healthcare sectors, to benefit most from the product.
Additionally, 1AI noted that Will also mentioned that despite the progress of Chinese AI company DeepSeek, it doesn't change OpenAI's product roadmap, but rather "underscores the importance of the U.S. winning this race." He said that AI is a highly competitive industry, not just within the US but globally, and that "we are committed to moving forward quickly to stay ahead of the curve."
