Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, individuals and businesses have been using it to summarize text, create new content, come up with new ideas and even write code.
As the service began to accumulate millions of active monthly users, rumors began to circulate about Microsoft’s involvement with the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI. Since then, Microsoft is said to have invested billions in the company and artificial intelligence has found its way into numerous products and services.
This partnership has now taken a major step forward as Microsoft will integrate ChatGPT directly into its Azure OpenAI service, extending its reach to millions of customers across the large number of companies using Azure.
ChatGPT in Azure
It is important to note that ChatGPT is currently in preview in Azure OpenAI Service, and full general availability may be some time away with future changes to services and pricing both possible and likely. However, for now it costs $0.002 per 1,000 tokens.
Microsoft hopes its Azure customers will use the AI chatbot to integrate into their own experiences and applications, such as enhancing existing bots, summarizing calls and meetings, creating new marketing collateral, and automating claims processes.
For anyone still unsure how AI can benefit their business, Microsoft lists some third parties in one blog post (opens in new tab) that have experienced improvements as well as some of its own services, including GitHub Copilot, Team PremiumVivaSales and Bing.
Overall, with Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft hopes to democratize artificial intelligence and get it into the hands of as many customers as possible. However, some argue that the global rollout has been too slow with too much emphasis on certain parts of the world. likely due to the difficulty of delivering low-latency AI at scale.