Openai said Monday that the US Department of Defense.
Operai provides some examples of possible tasks, such as helping the members of the service to obtain medical attention, rationalize data on several programs and “support proactive cyber defense.” The company also said that “all cases of use must be consistent with the policies and guidelines for the use of Operai.”
The announcement of the Department of Defense used a slightly simpler turn. He says: “According to this award, the artist will develop prototype abilities of the border to address the critical challenges of national security both in war domains and in the company.”
It remains to be seen if that reference to the war fight is applied to weapons itself or simply to other areas associated with wars, such as paperwork. OpenAI guidelines prohibit individual users to use chatgpt or their API to develop or use weapons. However, Openai eliminated the explicit prohibitions of “military and war” in its terms of service in January 2024.
Given how strongly some powerful people in Silicon Valley have warned about the dangers of the advanced LLM models of China, it is not surprising that the Department of Defense wants to use OpenAi for any purpose you want. For example, Marc Andreessen, co -founder of the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, an OpenAi investor, appeared recently in the “Without Limit” podcast of Jack Altman (Jack is Sam Altman’s brother). Andreessen described the race between China’s and the models of the western world as a “cold war.”
Even so, perhaps an equally interesting part of this announcement is what he says about Openi’s increasingly tense relationship with his main Microsoft investor.
Microsoft has thousands of contracts with the federal government worth hundreds of millions of dollars. For decades, the strict security protocols necessary for the Government, as special, the DOD, use its cloud.
Operai announced this agreement as part of its new “OpenAI program for the” broader government, which consolidates other programs that it uses to sell products directly to government agencies, including national laboratories of the United States, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, NIH and Treasury, according to the company.
But it was only in April that Microsoft announced that the Department of Defense had approved its Azure Operai service for all classified levels. Now the Department of Defense also goes directly to the source. From Microsoft’s perspective: Ouch.
