Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to launch an artificial intelligence supercomputer called Stargate by 2028 as part of a potential $100 billion data center project. According to a report by The Information cited by Reuters, the two technology companies will carry out the data center project in five phases with Stargate as the last phase.

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Cloud content management tool provider Box has partnered with Microsoft to integrate the latter's Azure OpenAI Service into its new artificial intelligence offering for enterprise customers. Box AI uses advanced Azure OpenAI Service's large language models to generate content and actionable insights using data and reports stored in Box, the Redwood City, California-based company said Tuesday.

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Microsoft has added its Azure OpenAI service to its Azure Government cloud services platform, said Candice Ling, Microsoft Federal's vice president of strategic missions and technologies and winner of the Wash100 Award. In an article posted Tuesday, Ling said the company intends to apply for FedRAMP High certification as well as Department of Defense Impact Level 4 and 5 authorizations for Azure OpenAI.

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Microsoft has received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based generative artificial intelligence service offering to federal agencies. The Azure OpenAI Service secured the FedRAMP authorization after meeting the security requirements for handling government data and related workloads through the program’s rigorous assessment process, Sachin Sinha, director of technology […] More

Microsoft Azure Government users can now access generative artificial intelligence capabilities designed to support a range of use cases, from enhancing productivity to generating data-driven insights to meet mission needs. The Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service uses a new architecture that provides government agencies with secure access to large language models in Azure Government’s commercial environment, […] More

As the federal government embraces artificial intelligence, its leaders are working to build better, more trustworthy and more reliable AI tools and technologies. Digital Science President Stephen Leicht told Executive Mosaic in a new video interview that successful AI systems rely upon three key components: data, technology and people.

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Candice Ling, federal sector leader at Microsoft, was inducted into Executive Mosaic's 2024 roster of Wash100 awardees for driving innovation in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. 2024 marks Ling’s debut on Executive Mosaic's annual selection of 100 government and government contracting industry leaders.

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NVIDIA has unveiled the GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip. Powered by six new technologies, including Blackwell-architecture GPUs called the B200 and the fifth-generation NVIDIA NVLink, the platform works to enable organizations to build and run real-time generative artificial intelligence, NVIDIA said Monday.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen seven companies for the small business track of the Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge. The competing small businesses were evaluated by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, DARPA said Monday.

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Intel Corporation recently held an event where it launched a new foundry division the company described as “a more sustainable systems foundry business designed for the AI era.” Intel said Wednesday that the same event saw the unveiling of a roadmap outlining process node innovation and evolution targets through 2027 that would help Intel Foundry become the No. 2 foundry by 2030.

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Procentrix, a Herndon, Virginia-based government information technology services contractor, has started leveraging the Azure OpenAI Service through its partnership with Microsoft to advance prototype projects that seek to develop business platforms meant to help federal government customers improve operations.

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Microsoft plans to launch new artificial intelligence capabilities across its cloud environments in the next few months to help government clients meet their requirements and support mission-critical workloads. Candice Ling, vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft Federal, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the company intends to introduce its Azure OpenAI Service in Azure Government during the first quarter of 2024.

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