OpenAI has partnered with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to offer its ChatGPT model to the US federal workforce for the nominal fee of $1 a year. This initiative is part of the AI developer’s plan to increase adoption of its chatbot.
Earlier this week, GSA, which is the government’s centralised procurement division, announced it added Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to its list of approved AI companies for use across civilian federal agencies.
OpenAI stated it will provide wide access to the enterprise version of ChatGPT by charging $1 for the next year, including an additional 60-day period for unlimited use of advanced features.
The company set up a dedicated government user community to help federal employees feel confident about using AI. Custom training platforms and guided learning are also available to help them explore and use the technology.
“This effort delivers on a core pillar of the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan by making powerful AI tools available across the federal government so that workers can spend less time on red tape and paperwork, and more time doing what they came to public service to do: serve the American people,” OpenAI stated.
It noted ChatGPT Enterprise does not use business data, including inputs or outputs, to train or improve models and it stated the same safeguards will apply to federal use.
Additionally, GSA has officially issued an Authority to Use (ATU) for ChatGPT Enterprise, “demonstrating our commitment to rigorous security and compliance standards”.
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, according to OpenAI’s website.
Source: Mobile World Live
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