ChatGPT Coming Soon To Azure OpenAI Services

Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service, which has been restricted to a few select customers since its launch in November 2021, is now generally available. The line up of advanced AI

models the service offers includes GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2 and soon customers will also be able to access ChatGTP. By giving enterprise customers

access to start of the art AI tools, Azure Open AI Services is a big step towards "democratizing AI" which has been a key issue for both OpenAI and for Microsoft and it is

certainly likely to be a further boost for Azure. Microsoft appears to be going all out on Artificial Intelligence and, according to rumours currently circulating, is looking

to invest $10 billion into OpenAI, the company responsible for the remarkable breakthroughs in natural language understanding and generation, giving it a 49% share. The deal will

also give Microsoft 75% of OpenAI's profits until it has recouped its investment. Microsoft initially formed its partnership with OpenAI in 2016 when Azure was adopted as

OpenAI's primary cloud platform. Then in 2019 Microsoft made a major $1 billion investment in OpenAI "to accelerate breakthroughs in AI". The following year Microsoft announced

that its AI supercomputers, were to be built in collaboration with and exclusively for OpenAI and Microsoft was granted an exclusive license for GPT-3, giving it privileged access

to OpenAI's code. As the timeline shows the relationship seems to have had the desired effect of increasing the rate at which practical applications of AI have been

launched by Microsoft with GPT-3 behind PowerApps launched in May 2021 and Copilot, its AI pair-programming tool launched the following month, based on OpenAI Codex. It's not

a one-way street as acknowledged in a recent Tweet from OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, thanking Microsoft and Azure for the work it puts in to OpenAI's products. Azure OpenAI

Service, part of Azure Cognitive Service was introduced in private preview in November 2021 to a small number of invited companies. Commenting on the preview phase in the

announcement of its general availability Eric Boyd, the head of Microsoft's AI Platform, revealed: Customers of all sizes across industries are using Azure OpenAI Service to

do more with less, improve experiences for end-users, and streamline operational efficiencies internally. From startups like Moveworks to multinational corporations like KPMG,

organizations small and large are applying the capabilities of Azure OpenAI Service to advanced use cases such as customer support, customization, and gaining insights from data