Microsoft to offer OpenAI GPT models to US government agencies

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will provide access to artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs) from ChatGPT creator OpenAI to the users of its Azure Government cloud computing service, which include several U.S. federal agencies. Microsoft, which backs OpenAI, has added support for the startup’s latest model GPT-4, and an earlier version GPT-3 to Azure Government. It was not disclosed which agencies will use the LLMs. The Defense and Energy departments and NASA are among the federal government customers of Azure Government. Meanwhile, an official of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) — a unit of Defense Department which focuses on collecting military…