Microsoft to soon add ChatGPT to Azure OpenAI service: What is this and other details

Microsoft OpenAI Service: Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it will add the popular artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT of OpenAI to Azure in the near future. Azure is a cloud-based service that gives customers access to various artificial intelligence (AI) tools for use in their applications. 

The news comes at a time when the tech giant is looking to add to the $1 billion stake in OpenAI that was announced in 2019.

"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-optimised infrastructure of Microsoft Azure, to create cutting-edge applications," Microsoft said in a blogpost.

"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," it added.

Microsoft CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella also shared the information on his Twitter handle. "ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure Open AI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world's most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives," he tweeted.

In a bid to enable customers to tap into the power of large-scale generative AI models, Microsoft debuted the Azure OpenAI in November 2021.

What is OpenAI?

OpenAI is a nonprofit research company that is working with the aim to develop and direct artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that benefit humanity as a whole. Founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a highly capable chatbot developed by OpenAI. It is based on the GPT-3 or Generative Pretrained Transformer 3, a state-of-the-art language model. ChatGPT is different from other chatbots as it is capable of generating human-like responses.