OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov. The new version of the AI-powered chatbot platform is designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech.
The launch comes hours after CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that the company will “pull up some releases,” making his first public statement after the low-cost Chinese AI startup DeepSeek jolted AI-linked stocks on Monday.
DeepSeek — referred to by Altman as its “new competitor” — shook up the AI landscape after its free AI assistant overtook ChatGPT in downloads from Apple’s.
The model’s popularity has made investors in U.S. tech giants tighten the scrutiny of billions of dollars pledged to scale AI operations.
ChatGPT Gov capabilities
ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. Using the platform, agencies can deploy certain OpenAI models on Microsoft Azure commercial or government clouds. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Gov enables agencies to more easily manage their own security, privacy, and compliance, and could expedite internal authorization of OpenAI’s tools for the handling of non-public sensitive data.
OpenAI claims that, since 2024, more than 90,000 users across more than 3,500 U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies have sent over 18 million messages on ChatGPT to support their day-to-day work.
