Microsoft
Strategic
Missions
and
Technology CTO
William
Chappell
announced
that
it’s
deployed
a
GPT-4
large
language
model
in
an
isolated,
air-gapped
environment
on
a
government-only
network.
Bloomberg
first
reported
the
setup,
citing
an
unnamed
executive
who
claimed
that
the
Azure
Government
Top
Secret
cloud-hosted
model
represents
the
first
time
a
“major”
LLM
has
operated
separated
from
the
internet.
Chappell
announced
the
AI
supercomputer
on
Tuesday
afternoon
at
the
“first-ever
AI
Expo
for
National
Competitiveness”
in
Washington
D.C.
Unlike
the
models
behind
ChatGPT
or
other
tools,
Microsoft
says
this
server
is
“static,”
operating
without
learning
from
the
files
it
processes
or
the
wider
internet.
Chappell
told
Bloomberg,
“It
is
now
deployed,
it’s
live,
it’s
answering
questions,
it
will
write
code
as
an
example
of
the
type
of
thing
it’ll
do.”
As
Chappell
mentioned
to
DefenseScoop,
it
has
not
been
accredited
for
top-secret
use,
so
the
Pentagon
and
other
government
departments
aren’t
actually
using
it
yet,
whether
that’s
processing
data
for
a
particular
mission
or
something
like
HR.
(Originally posted by Richard Lawler)
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