Microsoft Releases Azure Open AI Service Including Access to Powerful GPT-3 Models

At its recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the new Azure OpenAI Service in preview, allowing access to OpenAI's API through the Azure platform. This new Azure Cognitive Service will give customers access to OpenAI's powerful GPT-3 models, along with security, reliability, compliance, data privacy, and other enterprise-grade capabilities available through the Azure platform. Earlier, the company invested in OpenAI, founded initially as a non-profit open-source organization by several investors, including Tesla founder Elon Musk. And the OpenAI API is the first commercial product in the for-profit OpenAI LP entity, allowing developers to leverage the general-purpose model for natural language GPT-3. The model GPT-3 and its fine-tuned derivatives, such as Codex, can be tailored to handle applications requiring a deep understanding of language, such as converting natural language into software code, summarizing large amounts of text, and generating answers to questions.