OpenAI's new AI chatbot is an expansion on its flagship ChatGPT product. The new tool, ChatGPT Gov, is specifically for use by U.S. government agencies.

Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence (AI) bellwether OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a tailored version of ChatGPT designed for U.S. government agencies, it said in a blog post on Tuesday. OpenAI said the agencies can deploy ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud,

OpenAI has begun offering a version of ChatGPT designed for US government agencies. ChatGPT Gov includes many of the same features found in the Enterprise offering of the chatbot, including access to the company’s GPT-4o model.

Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, known for co-writing Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote Sunday on X that “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” likening it to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the event that forced the U.S. to realize that its technological abilities were not unassailable.

DeepSeek topped the Apple App Store chart and sparked fears the Chinese company was quickly catching up with OpenAI's ChatGPT while costing far less.

The shocking success of a new model from a mysterious Chinese lab has America questioning its leadership of the sector.