OpenAI unveils AI service designed for U.S. government agenciesOpenAI unveils AI service designed for U.S. government agencies

ChatGPT Gov was designed to accommodate “non-public sensitive data” in a secure self-hosting environment, according to the company.

Ryan Kushner, Editor

February 3, 2025

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OpenAI—the Microsoft-backed developer of ChatGPT—introduced ChatGPT Gov, an artificial intelligence (AI) service the company says is designed for use by U.S. government agencies.

The new service was unveiled Jan. 28 and provides U.S. government agencies with “an additional way to access OpenAI’s frontier models” and accommodate “non-public sensitive data” in a secure self-hosting environment, according to the company.

“By making our products available to the U.S. government, we aim to ensure AI serves the national interest and the public good, aligned with democratic values, while empowering policymakers to responsibly integrate these capabilities to deliver better services to the American people,” the company said in a statement.

The introduction of the new product comes a week after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI developer, introduced its first free AI chatbot app, quickly disrupting the AI space in direct competition with OpenAI. 

ChatGPT Gov can be used in the Microsoft Azure commercial cloud or Azure Government cloud in addition to Microsoft’s Azure’s existing OpenAI offerings, according to OpenAI. OpenAI said the setup, self-hosted on the user’s cloud environment with internal safety protocols, would expedite internal authorization of its tools for the handling of non-public sensitive data used by government agencies.

The service includes access to “many of the same” features as the company’s ChatGPT Enterprise, including saving and sharing conversations within the workspace, text interpretation, summarization, coding, image interpretation, mathematics, custom GPTs and more, according to the company.

OpenAI stated in its announcement that more than 90,000 users across approximately 3,500 U.S. federal, state and local government agencies have utilized ChatGPT to support day-to-day work since the beginning of 2024. Some U.S. government agencies currently using ChatGPT include the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Minnesota’s Enterprise Translations Office.

“We look forward to collaborating with government agencies to enhance service delivery to the American people through AI and to foster public trust in this critical technology,” the company added. 

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