Microsoft & OpenAI recently announced has a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI as it’s largest founding partner.
As such:
- Microsoft Azure will be the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI & exclusive licensee for the GPT-3 language model used in ChatGPT.
- Microsoft has released Azure OpenAI Service, an enterprise-class delivery of OpenAI capabilities.
- Microsoft intends on leveraging OpenAI services, including ChatGPT, throughout it’s entire cloud portfolio including Microsoft 365, Azure & Dynamics 365.
Read more about the new partnership extension here:
- Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/ - What is Azure OpenAI?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/overview - Azure OpenAI Service helps customers accelerate innovation with large AI models; Microsoft expands availability
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/azure-openai-service-helps-customers-accelerate-innovation-with-large-ai-models-microsoft-expands-availability/ - Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/