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In a blog post tonight Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI servicewhich enables companies to power their apps with large-scale AI models, including GPT-3.5, DALL-E 2, and Codex.
According to a press statement, availability is “limited to customers who meet and adhere to the standards of responsible and ethical AI principles that Microsoft has established and published (linked to here). Customers are required request access describe their intended use case or application before accessing the service.”
ChatGPT is coming
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tweeted the announcement, adding that “ChatGPT will soon be available for the Azure Open AI service, now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business requirements.”
Open AI tweeted the news, adding that “We learned a lot from the ChatGPT research preview and made important updates based on user feedback. ChatGPT is coming soon to our API and Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service.”
However, there was no further comment from Microsoft or OpenAI on the other big news – that Microsoft is launching a $10 billion investment in OpenAI, in which it invested $1 billion in 2019.
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service debuted in November 2021
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service debuted in November 2021 by invitation. According to a press statement, companies have used the service to apply advanced use cases such as customer support, customization, and gaining insights from data using search, data extraction, and classification.
In addition, Microsoft uses the Azure OpenAI service to power its own products, including GitHub copilotthat allows developers to write better code, Power BIwhich uses GPT-3 powered natural language to automatically generate formulas and expressions, and the recently announced Microsoft Designerwhich builds content with natural language prompts.
Azure is also the main compute power behind the OpenAI API family of models. In December 2022, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI tweeted: “Microsoft, and especially Azure, don’t get nearly enough credit for the stuff OpenAI is launching. they do an amazing job of getting it done; we are very grateful for the cooperation. They have built by far the best AI infrastructure out there.”
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