Pentagon quietly began testing OpenAI models in 2023 despite military ban: Report

OpenAI signed a deal last week with the US government to allow its AI models to be used by the military for classified purposes. However, a new report by WIRED notes that the US military began experimenting with OpenAI models in 2023, despite the company having a blanket ban on the military’s access to its AI models.

Reportedly, in 2023, OpenAI employees discovered that the Pentagon had begun experimenting with their models via Azure OpenAI, a version of the OpenAI models offered by Microsoft.