United StatesPublic sector2023 – ongoingSandia National Laboratories
SandiaAI Chat on Azure OpenAI
Sandia Labs builds a secure AI chat tool in eight months for nearly 17,000 staff
Problem
Staff at the national security lab needed generative AI, but sensitive unclassified material could not go to public models.
Approach
Sandia began developing SandiaAI Chat with Microsoft in October 2023. It runs on Azure OpenAI in a controlled Azure environment, cut off from public models. Employees use it to write code, draft emails, automate workflows and build Power BI visuals.
Results
Takeaway
A closed environment let a security-sensitive employer open generative AI to most of its staff. Sandia reports the first month's usage but no total hours saved.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Public sector
- Business function
- Internal work and knowledge managementIT and R&D
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Vendor solution
- Evidence
- Vendor's case study
Sources
Source summaries
Microsoft tells how Sandia built an isolated generative AI chat tool and rolled it out within eight months. It reports user counts and first-month question volume.
Full details are in the original sources.
