Microsoft launches Azure OpenAI Service, opening access to GPT-3

Microsoft has launched the Azure OpenAI Service – giving Azure customers the ability to utilize OpenAI's machine learning models. Unveiled at the company's recent Ignite event, the service is based on GPT-3, a language model developed by OpenAI, the company which Microsoft backed with $1bn in 2019. Currently invitation-only, the service will give users the ability to make use of GPT-3 in several ways, including content and code generation. "We are just in the beginning stages of figuring out what the power and potential of GPT-3 is," Eric Boyd, corporate vice president for Azure AI, said. "Now we are taking what OpenAI has released and making it available with all the enterprise promises that businesses need to move into production."