Microsoft AI offerings now authorized at FedRAMP High
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OpenAI’s GPT-4 will be available to agencies requiring FedRAMP High Authorization designations.
Microsoft is continuing its expansion of artificial intelligence tools to federal customers, with updated features to its Azure GPT service announced Monday.
Azure GPT-4 and Azure OpenAI Service have been approved to be used within FedRAMP High environments. This means that federal agencies hosting relatively sensitive and secure data can access generative AI capabilities within their Azure Government platforms, which Microsoft says will adhere to robust security requirements.
“By making Azure OpenAI Service available in the Azure Government cloud, Microsoft
remains committed to enabling government transformation with AI,” the announcement said. “Along with delivering innovations that help drive missions forward, we make AI easy to procure, easy to access, and easy to implement. Microsoft is committed to delivering more advanced AI capabilities across classification levels in the coming months.”
The tools could be used for natural language understanding, natural language generation, text summarization, text classification, sentiment analysis, question answering, conversational agents and more.