Microsoft has announced the general availability of your Azure OpenAI cloud service, which had been in testing for some users since November 2021. Among other things, it is a step with which the company seeks to give more customers access to OpenAI technologies. What ChatGPTwhich just a few days ago announced that it was integrating into several of its office automation products, and that coming soon to Bing. But also to Azure OpenAIas reflected in its roadmap.
Microsoft customers who have access to Azure OpenAI will have access to several openAI tools to use with their own cloud applications. Among them is the Dall-E artistic image generator and the GPT-3.5 language system. There is no concrete date yet to add ChatGPT, which the Redmonders refer to as a calibrated and tuned version of GPT-3.5. They just say they will soon.
Microsoft has been an OpenAI partner since 2019, when it invested $1 billion in the startup, which counts Elon Musk and Sam Altman among its founders, and Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman among its investors. But he could significantly increase his investment in the company in the near future, since there have been rumors for several days that he could allocate as much as 10,000 million dollars to OpenAI.
According to Eric Boyd, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Platform at Microsoftall Microsoft customers who are using the Azure OpenAI service, from large corporations like KPMG to small startups, can use its tools and capabilities to do more with less effort and time.
With its tools they will be able to improve the user and purchase experiences for their customers to optimize the operational efficiencies of their respective companies internally. Among the options that it will offer them are their integration into customer service systems, customization of functions and obtaining data information through search, extraction and classification of the same.
