[Microsoft Azure to provide GPT-4 large model to US government customers] Microsoft will enable users of its Azure government cloud service, including various US agencies, to access the artificial intelligence model of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday local time that Azure government service customers can use OpenAI's two large language models through Microsoft Azure OpenAI services, the latest GPT-4 and the early GPT-3. It is understood that Microsoft is the largest investor in OpenAI and uses its technology to support its Bing chat robot. The U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and NASA all serve Microsoft Azure government customers. (Bloomberg)