Microsoft Announces ChatGPT Feature Through Azure OpenAI Service

In July 2020, Microsoft announced it had made a strategic investment in OpenAI (the creator of ChatGPT) as part of a multiyear partnership. As part of this deal, Microsoft and OpenAI would collaborate on various projects and initiatives, including developing new AI models and technologies, and making them more accessible to developers and customers.

Last week it was reported that Microsoft is investing $10 billion into OpenAI.

• With this investment, OpenAI will be valued at $29 billion
• Microsoft will reportedly receive a 75% share of OpenAI’s profits until it earns the money back on its investment.
• Following, Microsoft will own 49% of OpenAI

Why This Matters to Microsoft

Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of ChatGBT within its Azure OpenAI Service, a powerful platform allowing individuals and businesses to innovate and apply AI to solve complex problems. Microsoft and OpenAI are working together to develop new AI tools and technologies that can be used in various industries, such as health care, retail and financial services. This partnership provides Microsoft with access to OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI research and technology, which it will use to improve its own products and services, such as Azure AI and Dynamics 365.

The partnership between Azure and OpenAI allows for IT users to easily integrate the advanced language capabilities of ChatGPT into their existing Azure-based systems and applications. This can greatly enhance the natural language processing and understanding capabilities of these systems, allowing for more efficient and accurate communication with users. Additionally, by utilizing Azure’s cloud computing infrastructure, IT users can easily scale and manage the deployment of ChatGPT, making it more cost-effective and accessible. Overall, the partnership allows IT users to easily incorporate state-of-the-art language technology into their systems, improving the user experience and increasing efficiency.

Advancements in Natural Language Processing

With Azure OpenAI Service, consumers will access the world’s most advanced AI models including GPT-3.5, Codex and DALL•E 2, all backed by the capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure of Microsoft Azure.

This is part of Microsoft’s ongoing mission to make AI accessible to everyone, in partnership with OpenAI. Additionally, customers will be able to utilize ChatGPT, a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 that has been trained and runs on Azure AI infrastructure. ChatGPT enhances the Azure offerings of Microsoft for Microsoft users by providing advanced natural language processing capabilities that can be integrated into a variety of Azure-based systems and applications. This will enhance the user experience by allowing for more natural and efficient communication between users and these systems.

How Microsoft Will Leverage ChatGPT

ChatGPT can be integrated into Azure Cognitive Services, which provides pre-built APIs for natural language processing, computer vision and speech recognition. This can enable more advanced and accurate language understanding, which can be used to improve user interactions with chatbots, virtual assistants and other applications.

Additionally, ChatGPT will be integrated into Azure Machine Learning, which provides a platform for building and deploying machine learning models. This allows Microsoft users to easily build and deploy their own custom language models, which can be used to improve the performance of their applications in a specific domain or industry.

Google’s Advancements in Machine Learning

It is unclear how Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI GPT-3 specifically affects Google. Both Microsoft and Google are major players in the industry and offer various products and services, including cloud computing and artificial intelligence. However, the release of Azure OpenAI GPT-3 will increase competition in the field of language generation and natural language processing, which will affect the market for similar products and services offered by Google.

Google has not announced any plans to incorporate OpenAI’s GPT-3 model into their search specifically. However, Google is a leader in the field of natural language processing and machine learning and have been working on developing similar capabilities in their search and other products. It is possible that they may be exploring ways to use GPT-3 or similar language generation models to improve their search results or other features in the future.

Editor’s Note: Martinwolf supports this partnership with OpenAI so strongly that it used ChatGPT to author roughly 80% of this blog. Full disclosure, Informa Tech Channels has formed a partnership with Martinwolf Associates for the launch of an M&A marketplace.