AI Assistant for Government Staff
Joined January 2025
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If you want to join our seminar regarding Government Staff Use of AI Assistants: Texas vs. USA Averages for 2024/2025, you can do so by registering here: zoom.us/webinar/register/311…
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We are glad for our colleagues at OpenAI and for the Stargate Project, finally the American Government is stepping up!🚀
Announcing The Stargate Project
The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.
The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.
Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.
As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.
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Answering some of the most common questions we are getting:
1. Is GovAI only accessible to government staff & leaders?
- At the moment yes, and the explanation can be found in the FAQ section on our website.
We are considering to grant access to civilians as well in order to bridge the distance between them and government officials.
2. Is GovAI an open source project?
- No, it is not.
3. Can you tell us more about who is behind GovAI?
- The company behind is Civia, founded in 2023, and is a private company specializing in business and productivity software.
The founding team includes Andrew Wilgar, who previously co-founded Bonfire, a procurement platform for public sector teams.
You can find his profile here:
amcto.com/professional-growt…
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Who is the team behind GovAI (and Civia)?
We're the founding team of Civia, a group of technologists and builders who are passionate about the potential of AI to help government staff. We've worked in and with government for decades, and we've seen first-hand how the right technology can help public sector staff rise to their challenges.
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We were inspired to create a platform that would allow government staff to connect, share, and learn from each other. The advent of AI added powerful possibilities to how knowledge is categorized and shared. We're excited to be on this journey with you, and we're committed to making GovAI and Civia the best possible platform for government staff.
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Previously, we founded Bonfire, a successful 'govtech' procurement platform that handled terabytes of highly confidential buyer/supplier data, $100B of procurement projects, and was used by thousands of government users. Through the 10 years of building that platform and company we saw first-hand how knowledgeable, hard-working and virtuous government staff are.
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Why was GovAI created?
GovAI was created so that government would have a better option for AI assistants than the industry-first solutions largely on offer, as well as the very expensive, very complicated and invasive platforms being pushed by major tech companies (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc).
Public Sector is so unique in its context and constraints that off-the-shelf AI systems range from inappropriate to downright dangerous.
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We should not be seeing any backlash anytime soon.
In 2025, the first AI agents will “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies. thanks @sama for sharing your reflections on AGI
h/t @tobi for sharing a great question on AI and Canadian government contractors. I’m also thinking when the backlash to AI starts
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How GovAI Works?
GovAI takes your unique context in government -- your organization type/size/sector, geographic region, functional role and seniority -- and uses that to optimize an underlying Large Language Model (LLM) trained on public data and with access to our proprietary set of government contextual data.
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We believe that AI will have a more transformative impact on government staff and leaders than any tech innovation of the last twenty years - but it needs to be made safe and adapted to your governmental context. Our unique GovAI Assistant wraps the underlying AI/LLM with a compliance and safety layer, and provides deep gov contextual knowledge to help you best.
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