Microsoft will "soon" add ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure OpenAI service
The Azure service that gives customers access to OpenAI tools is now widely available.
Microsoft is giving more people, or at least more customers, access to OpenAI technologies, including ChatGPT. The tech giant has announced that it is now making the Azure OpenAI service generally available after providing access to a limited number of enterprise customers when it launched in November 2021. As Bloomberg notes , customers who have access to the service can use various OpenAI tools for their own cloud applications, including the Dall-E AI art generator and the GPT-3.5 language system. Microsoft says it will also add access to ChatGPT, which it describes as an "optimized version of GPT-3.5", to the service "soon".
The tech giant has been associated with OpenAI since investing $1 billion in the startup founded by Elon Musk in 2019. The announcement comes shortly after reports emerged that Microsoft is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion in the company. . "These [AI] models are going to change the way people interact with computers," Eric Boyd, head of AI platforms at Microsoft, previously told The Financial Times in an interview. .
While OpenAI has been around for quite some time, it recently got the spotlight after the debut of ChatGPT. The program has the ability to return long, consistent responses that are not immediately recognizable as machine-generated responses. It was good enough to alarm educators, who feared it could be used to cheat. Earlier this month, New York City Public Schools banned ChatGPT from school devices and Wi-Fi networks.
The Information also previously reported that Microsoft plans to integrate the OpenAI software powering ChatGPT into Bing. While it's still unclear what the software could do for the search engine, sources said it could allow Bing to return results in a more user-friendly and easier-to-digest format. ChatGPT is available for free at the moment, but OpenAI intends to make money in the future and has already opened a waiting list for those who want to test a paid version of the bot.
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The Azure service that gives customers access to OpenAI tools is now widely available.
Microsoft is giving more people, or at least more customers, access to OpenAI technologies, including ChatGPT. The tech giant has announced that it is now making the Azure OpenAI service generally available after providing access to a limited number of enterprise customers when it launched in November 2021. As Bloomberg notes , customers who have access to the service can use various OpenAI tools for their own cloud applications, including the Dall-E AI art generator and the GPT-3.5 language system. Microsoft says it will also add access to ChatGPT, which it describes as an "optimized version of GPT-3.5", to the service "soon".
The tech giant has been associated with OpenAI since investing $1 billion in the startup founded by Elon Musk in 2019. The announcement comes shortly after reports emerged that Microsoft is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion in the company. . "These [AI] models are going to change the way people interact with computers," Eric Boyd, head of AI platforms at Microsoft, previously told The Financial Times in an interview. .
While OpenAI has been around for quite some time, it recently got the spotlight after the debut of ChatGPT. The program has the ability to return long, consistent responses that are not immediately recognizable as machine-generated responses. It was good enough to alarm educators, who feared it could be used to cheat. Earlier this month, New York City Public Schools banned ChatGPT from school devices and Wi-Fi networks.
The Information also previously reported that Microsoft plans to integrate the OpenAI software powering ChatGPT into Bing. While it's still unclear what the software could do for the search engine, sources said it could allow Bing to return results in a more user-friendly and easier-to-digest format. ChatGPT is available for free at the moment, but OpenAI intends to make money in the future and has already opened a waiting list for those who want to test a paid version of the bot.
All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices correct at time of publication.
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