New Delhi, March 6 -- OpenAI signed a deal last week with US goverment to allow its AI models to be used for classified use cases by the military. However, a new report by WIRED notes that the US military had started experimenting with OpenAI models back in 2023 despite the company having a blanket ban on military accessing its AI models.

Reportedly, the OpenAI employees in 2023 discovered that hte Pentagon had begun experimenting with their models via Azure OpenAI, a version of OpenAI models that is offered by Microsoft. The report notes that at the time Microsoft had been contracting with the Department of Defense for decades.

Notably, Microsoft is among the earliest and biggest backers of OpenAI has an agreement with the startup to u...