1 week Ago By Richard Lawler
Microsoft Strategic Missions and Technology CTO William Chappell announced that it’s deployed a GPT-4 large language model in an isolated, air-gapped environment on a government-only network. first reported the setup, citing an unnamed executive who claimed that the Azure Government Top Secret cloud-hosted model represents the first time a “major” LLM has operated separated from the internet. Chappell announced the AI supercomputer on Tuesday afternoon in Washington D.
C. Unlike the models behind ChatGPT or other tools, Microsoft says this server is “static,” operating without learning from the files it processes or the wider internet. Chappell told , “It is now deployed, it’s live, it’s answering questions, it will write code as an example of the type of thing it’ll do.
” As Chappell mentioned to , it has not been accredited for top-secret use, so the Pentagon and other government departments aren’t actually using it yet, whether that’s processing data for a particular mission or something like HR. /.
