Microsoft will add OpenAI’s ChatGPT to its cloud offering Azure: CEO Satya Nadella

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced on Monday that ChatGPT will soon be made available to the Azure OpenAI Service - the firm’s cloud business.

“ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives.” he said.



News website Semafor reported recently that the software giant is in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI.

The latest funding round will value OpenAI at $29 billion, and Microsoft will snag 75% of the company’s profits until it recouped its initial investment, Semafor reported.

Post which, it will own a 49% stake in OpenAI, with other investors sharing another 49% between them and OpenAI's non-profit parent firm getting 2%, the report added.

In 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and in the years since, it has quietly invested another $2 billion, according to a New York Times report.

“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 application,” Microsoft wrote in its blog.

“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.”

Microsoft said CarMax, KPMG, Moveworks and others were using its Azure OpenAI service.

“We see Azure OpenAI Service as an important component of our machine learning architecture. It enables us to solve several novel use cases, such as identifying gaps in our customer’s internal knowledge bases and automatically drafting new knowledge articles based on those gaps. This saves IT and HR teams a significant amount of time and improves employee self-service,” said Vaibhav Nivargi, chief technology officer and founder at Moveworks, a US-based artificial intelligence.

According to Nivargi, Azure OpenAI Service will also radically enhance the existing enterprise search capabilities and supercharge analytics and data visualization offerings.