Microsoft: We're bringing ChatGPT to the Azure cloud

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Microsoft has announced general availability of its Azure OpenAI Service, an offering related to its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. 

That means more businesses can apply to use OpenAI's Azure-hosted and trained large language models (LLMs), such as: GPT-3.5, the LLMs behind ChatGPT; DALL•E 2, the AI that generates images from casual descriptions; and Codex, the GPT-3-based foundation of GitHub's Copilot AI paired programming service. 

ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives. https://t.co/kQwydRWWnZ

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) January 17, 2023

Asked at a Wall Street Journal event about the impact of AI, Nadella said every Microsoft product would include some AI capabilities and said: "The best way to prepare for it is not to bet against this technology, and this technology helping you in your job and your business process."

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, and in return OpenAI has built its AI models on Microsoft's Azure AI supercomputing technologies as it pursues General Artificial Intelligence. OpenAI has been scouting for investors at a valuation of $29 billion and Microsoft was reportedly in talks to take a $10 billion stake in the firm at a valuation of $29 billion. Shortly after opening ChatGPT in November, OpenAI's chief said ChatGPT responses cost in the single-digit cents. The chatbot gained one million users within a week of its launch.    

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Microsoft corporate vice president Eric Boyd says in a blogpost that Microsoft Azure customers will be able to access ChatGPT through Azure OpenAI Service soon. ChatGPT has been trained and runs inference models on Azure AI infrastructure, he notes. 

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In related news, OpenAI announced that it is adding ChatGPT to its roster of APIs, so that third-party developers can interface their applications with it. Those interested will have to join a waitlist, however.

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