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For individuals with Azure Commercial cloud instances:
If you are interested in using Azure OpenAI Service, the Azure subscription administrator will need to request approval to access Azure OpenAI Service by completing the following request form:

• Request Access to Azure OpenAI Service
  https://aka.ms/AOAIcommaccess
• Subscribe to the Azure AI Newsletter for updates on AI for Commercial users
  https://aka.ms/AINewsletter

Approval can take 2 days or more. Couple notes:

1. You will need to know the “Azure Subscription ID” of the Azure subscription to be enabled for Azure OpenAI to complete the form.  Instructions on how to obtain this if you don’t have it readily available are available in the form.
2. Request access to “GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, and/or Embeddings Models”.  There are other AI models available such as GPT-4 Turbo Vision, Whisper, etc. however unless explicitly required, most people only need “GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, and/or Embeddings Models”. Requesting additional models may delay your approval.

For individuals with Azure Government cloud instances:

• Request access to Azure OpenAI Service in Azure Government
  https://aka.ms/AOAIgovaccess
• Subscribe for the latest news and announcements on AI for government:
  https://aka.ms/AIforGovUpdates

Approval can take more than 4 days for Azure Government requests. Again, the notes above about requiring an Azure Government Subscription ID apply.

For anyone using Azure OpenAI Service, I recommend subscribing to the following:

• Rod Trent’s (Microsoft employee) “Azure Open AI Weekly Community Newsletter: https://azureopenai.substack.com/