Microsoft has announced that it will expand the Azure OpenAI Service and will ‘soon’ integrate OpenAI’s artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT in it.
The Azure OpenAI Service has been available to a limited number of enterprise customers when it debuted in November 2021.Â
“With Azure OpenAI Service now generally available, more businesses can apply for access to the most advanced AI models in the world—including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2—backed by the trusted enterprise-grade capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure of Microsoft Azure, to create cutting-edge applications,” said the company in a blog post.
“Customers will also be able to access ChatGPT—a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 that has been trained and runs inference on Azure AI infrastructure—through Azure OpenAI Service soon.”
In 2019, Microsoft made an investment of $1 billion in OpenAI. Recent reports have suggested that Microsoft is looking at adding to its existing stake in OpenAI.
Earlier this month, news site Semafor reported that the tech giant might invest $10 billion. Microsoft has not addressed the rumoured deal.
The Azure OpenAI Service update and ChatGPT integration announcement was confirmed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on social media.
He noted that the move is in line with the firm’s objectives “to help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models…”
The ChatGPT platform was launched to the public by Musk and Altman in November. It immediately rose to popularity, gathering its first million users in less than a week. The platform imitates human-like conversation based on user prompts.
