Openai said Monday The United States Department of Defense granted a contract of up to $ 200 million to help the agency identify and build prototype systems that use its border models for administrative tasks and more.
Openai offers some examples of possible tasks, such as helping service members to obtain health care, streamline data on various programs and “support proactive cyber defense”. The company also said that “all cases of use must be consistent with Openai’s policies and guidelines.”
It DOD’s announcement A slightly simpler writing is used. He says, “in this award, the interpreter will develop prototypes of the capacities of Ai Frontier to meet the critical national security challenges in both the domains of the fight and in the companies.”
If this reference to the war struggle is applied to its own weapons or only to other areas associated with the wars, like the procedures, it remains to be seen. Openai guidelines prohibit individual users using Chatgpt or their APIs to develop or use weapons. However, Openai suppressed explicit prohibitions of “military and war” in its terms of service In January 2024.
Given the strength that some powerful people of Silicon Valley have warned of the dangers of advanced LLM models in China, it is not uncommon for DOD to use Openai for any purpose he wants. For example, Marc Andreessen, co -founder of the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, an Openai investor, recently appeared in the “Unncapped” podcast by Jack Altman (Sam Altman’s brother). Andreessen described the race between the AI of China and The models of the western world as a “Cold War”.
However, perhaps an equally interesting part of this ad is what Openai says Extremely close relationship with its main Microsoft investor.
Microsoft Has thousands of contracts with the federal government worth hundreds of millions of dollars. For decades, implementing the strict security protocols needed for the Government, especially the DOD, to use its cloud.
Openai announced this agreement as part of its new “Openai for Government” program, which consolidates several programs it uses to sell goods directly to government agencies, including the United States National Laboratory, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, NIH and the Treasury, according to the company.
But it was only in April that Microsoft announced The DOD had approved its Azure Openai service for all classified levels. Now the DOD also goes directly to the source. From Microsoft’s perspective: Ouch.
Neither Openai nor Microsoft immediately responded to a comment request.
