Microsoft to offer OpenAI’s GPT models to government cloud customers

Microsoft Corp is bringing the powerful language-producing models from OpenAI to U.S. federal agencies using its Azure cloud service, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.

The Redmond, Washington-based company has added support for large language models (LLMs) powering GPT-4 and GPT-3 the latest and most-sophisticated of the LLMs from OpenAI, and GPT-3, to Azure Government cloud computing service.

Use of LLMs have boomed since the launch of ChatGPT from OpenAI, in which Microsoft holds a stake, late last year and businesses of all shapes and sizes are racing to build features on top of them.