Introducing ChatGPT Gov

# Introducing ChatGPT Gov Source: [https://openai.com/global-affairs/introducing-chatgpt-gov/](https://openai.com/global-affairs/introducing-chatgpt-gov/) We believe the U\.S\. government’s adoption of artificial intelligence can boost efficiency and productivity and is crucial for[maintaining and enhancing America’s global leadership⁠\(opens in a new window\)](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/)in this technology\. At OpenAI, we’re building AI to help people solve hard problems, and we see enormous potential for these tools to support the public sector in tackling complex challenges—from improving public health and infrastructure to strengthening national security\. By making our products available to the U\.S\. government, we aim to ensure AI serves the national interest and the public good, aligned with democratic values, while empowering policymakers to responsibly integrate these capabilities to deliver better services to the American people\. Today we’re announcing ChatGPT Gov, a new tailored version of ChatGPT designed to provide U\.S\. government agencies with an additional way to access OpenAI’s frontier models\. Agencies can deploy ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud or Azure Government cloud on top of Microsoft’s[Azure’s OpenAI⁠\(opens in a new window\)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/openai-service/?ef_id=_k_CjwKCAiAkc28BhB0EiwAM001TQQ6vmu2AsIoNTXbLrxbQse8juR9UI9MjyNzqvdbDxddC45T2U03CRoCQzMQAvD_BwE_k_&OCID=AIDcmm5edswduu_SEM__k_CjwKCAiAkc28BhB0EiwAM001TQQ6vmu2AsIoNTXbLrxbQse8juR9UI9MjyNzqvdbDxddC45T2U03CRoCQzMQAvD_BwE_k_&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAkc28BhB0EiwAM001TQQ6vmu2AsIoNTXbLrxbQse8juR9UI9MjyNzqvdbDxddC45T2U03CRoCQzMQAvD_BwE)Service\. Self\-hosting ChatGPT Gov enables agencies to more easily manage their own security, privacy, and compliance requirements, such as stringent cybersecurity frameworks \(IL5, CJIS, ITAR, FedRAMP High\)\. Additionally, we believe this infrastructure will expedite internal authorization of OpenAI’s tools for the handling of non\-public sensitive data\. Use of ChatGPT Gov is subject to our[usage policies](https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/), like other OpenAI services\. ChatGPT Gov includes access to many of the same features and capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise, such as: - Saving and sharing conversations within their government workspace, and uploading text and image files\. - GPT‑4o, our flagship model, excelling in text interpretation, summarization, coding, image interpretation, and mathematics\. - Custom GPTs that employees can build and share within their government workspace\. - An administrative console for CIOs and IT teams to manage users, groups, Custom GPTs, single sign\-on \(SSO\), and more\. ChatGPT Gov reflects our commitment to helping U\.S\. government agencies leverage OpenAI’s technology today\. We continue to work toward FedRAMP Moderate and High accreditations for our fully managed SaaS product, ChatGPT Enterprise\. We are also evaluating expanding ChatGPT Gov to[Azure’s classified regions⁠\(opens in a new window\)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastructure/government/national-security)\.