Microsoft is launching its Azure OpenAI service after a year of testing, and it’ll soon include ChatGPT — the AI-powered chatbot that’s enjoyed increasing popularity since last year.
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service will allow businesses to integrate AI tools like DALL-E into their cloud apps.
The Azure OpenAI service includes a variety of AI models developed by OpenAI, including Codex, DALL-E, and GPT-3.5, so developers and businesses can embed these systems into their own workloads and apps.
In essence, Microsoft combines GPT-3.5 with the scaling, management, and data-handling additions expected from Azure. Developers could find Azure useful for tasks like content matching to improve search results on online stores or to build AI-powered apps for support tickets.
Similar models are already widely used to help with analyzing texts and summarizing documents.
Microsoft uses Azure OpenAI service to power GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered tool that intelligently suggests lines of code to developers inside their code editor.
Power BI, Microsoft’s business analytic service, uses GPT-3 natural language models to generate expressions and formulae, while the upcoming Microsoft Designer app utilizes DALL-E to create art from text prompts.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, speaking at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, showed enthusiasm about the upcoming integration of OpenAI’s services into Microsoft’s products.
She said,
Tools like ChatGPT are of essential value to boost productivity, argued Nadella, saying that,
Microsoft invested $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019, and the following year, 2020, the company obtained an exclusive license to the underlying technology that powers GPT-3.
The two companies developed a deep relationship that only got better since, including plans to add an AI text-to-image model to Bing, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2.
A recent report by Semafor says that Microsoft is looking to invest $10 billion into OpenAI in a complicated deal that would see the software giant get 75% of profits and a 49% stake in OpenAI.
The announcement of Azure OpenAI rollout comes just days after rumors claimed Microsoft is looking to integrate OpenAI’s lineup of AI models even further into its products and services.
There are rumors that Microsoft is working on a ChatGPT-powered version of Bing and that the chatbot could soon be integrated into MS Office.
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