Edited by: Sharya Sharma
Last updated: January 17, 2023, 12:50 PM IST
ChatGPT is based on what’s known as a large language model, trained with text data so it can answer prompts like a human.
With the availability of the ChatGPT API and the Azure OpenAI service, enterprises can leverage the “powerful AI models at scale with industry-leading uptime for businesses and developers.”
ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI and backed by Microsoft, has already made waves in the tech industry and now OpenAI has announced the release of its API, enabling ChatGPT to be integrated into various businesses and use cases.
With a deluge of reports indicating that OpenAI could put ChatGPT behind a paywall in the future, open up the API, and turn it into a paid service, the company could help open up a new revenue stream.
OpenAI posted the link to a publicly available form on Twitter and announced that ChatGPT is coming soon to their API and Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service. The form reads, “Since Research Preview’s launch of ChatGPT, we’ve been overwhelmed with the excitement surrounding ChatGPT and the developer community’s desire to have an API available.”
With the availability of the ChatGPT API and the Azure OpenAI service, enterprises can leverage the “powerful AI models at scale with industry-leading uptime for businesses and developers.”
In simpler terms, the integration can help both large and small businesses use the AI to answer user questions or resolve user inconveniences across different categories. Small businesses can significantly improve their customer service by quickly resolving customer queries.
Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also took to Twitter to announce the wider availability of Azure OpenAI Service, giving users access to language models such as the GPT 3.5, on which ChatGPT is based. “ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI service, now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business requirements,” Satya revealed in a recent Tweet.
ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI service, now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business requirements. https://t.co/kQwydRWWnZ — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) January 17, 2023
In the blog post, Eric Boyd, vice president of Microsoft’s AI platform said, “Now that Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available, more companies can request access to the world’s most advanced AI models, including GPT-3.5, Codex and DALL•E 2—backed by the trusted enterprise-grade capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure of Microsoft Azure to create cutting-edge applications.”
He added, “Customers will also soon be able to access ChatGPT – a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 trained and inferenced on Azure AI infrastructure – via Azure OpenAI Service.”
According to reports, Microsoft invested $1 billion in ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI in 2019 and another $2 billion to support its development, with plans to invest another $10 billion to challenge competitors like Google, Amazon and Apple.
OpenAI is also developing GPT-4, a more advanced “generative AI” that can generate both images and text, according to a report from NewsMadura. Microsoft employees and venture capitalists have reportedly seen it in action, but Microsoft hasn’t confirmed its release plans.
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