The AI industry has been buzzing for a few days now, courtesy of a Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek. While the startup’s new R1 reasoning model has shown great potential, its ties with China and data collection policies are concerning. Speaking of AI, OpenAI has recently launched ChatGPT Gov, which is the company’s new chatbot for the US government.
OpenAI’s new “ChatGPT Gov” chatbot is designed for the US government
In its press release, OpenAI mentions that the new chatbot is “a tailored version of ChatGPT.” It’ll enable the government agencies to access the company’s “frontier models.” The agencies working with the ChatGPT Gov can deploy it in their Microsoft Azure commercial or government cloud, on top of Azure’s OpenAI Service. Doing that will allow agents to use the new chatbot while complying with advanced security protocols.
ChatGPT Gov offers similar features to ChatGPT Enterprise. This includes the ability to save and share conversations and upload text and image files, within the government workspace. By using ChatGPT Gov, government offices can access OpenAI’s high-end model, GPT-4o, which can help with coding, text summarization, math, and image interpretation.
That’s not all; government employees can also build custom GPTs and share them within their workspace. Furthermore, they’ll have access to an administrative console for CIOs and IT teams, which will help them manage users, custom GPTs, groups, single sign-on (SSO), and more.
OpenAI’s chatbot has been quite popular among departments
Many government employees in the US have been using OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise for quite some time. According to OpenAI’s press release, around 90,000 users in government offices have used ChatGPT throughout the last year.
Well, this isn’t the first time OpenAI has created something for a government. It’s reportedly also working with the UK government to introduce a new AI chatbot on its official website.
