Chinese AI company DeepSeek has been taking the headlines for nearly a week now, with US competitor OpenAI announcing ChatGPT Gov, a new tailored version of ChatGPT designed to provide US government agencies with more ways to use OpenAI’s frontier AI models.
OpenAI explained that agencies can deploy ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud or Azure Government cloud on top of Microsoft’s Azure’s OpenAI Service. Self-hosting ChatGPT Gov enables agencies to more easily manage their own security, privacy, and compliance requirements, such as stringent cybersecurity frameworks (IL5, CJIS, ITAR, FedRAMP High).
OpenAI’s usage policies apply to the use of ChatGPT Gov, like other OpenAI services. ChatGPT Gov includes access to many of the same features and capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise, such as saving and sharing conversations within their government workspace, uploading text and image files, and custom GPTs that employees can build and share within their government workspace.
An administrative console for CIOs and IT teams to manage users, groups, Custom GPTs, single sign-on (SSO), and more is also available.
Since 2024, more than 90,000 users across more than 3,500 US federal, state, and local government agencies have sent over 18 million messages on ChatGPT to support their day-to-day work, including administrative use cases, scientific research and innovation, translation services, and reducing routine tasks.
Air Force Research Laboratory is utilizing ChatGPT Enterprise for administrative use cases, including improving access to internal resources, basic coding, and supporting AI education efforts. Los Alamos National Laboratory is leveraging ChatGPT Enterprise for scientific research and innovation. The State of Minnesota’s Enterprise Translations Office is using ChatGPT Team to deliver faster, more accurate translation services to the state’s multilingual communities, significantly reducing costs and turnaround times. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employees participating in a first-in-the-nation AI pilot program found ChatGPT Enterprise helped reduce the time spent on routine tasks by approximately 105 minutes per day on the days they used it.
