Microsoft Brings GPT-3 to Enterprise Cloud Via New Azure OpenAI Service
Microsoft reveals the Azure OpenAI Service at Ignite 2021, giving cloud customers secure access to the powerful GPT-3 language model. The new invite-only tool builds on Microsoft's ongoing billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI.
Microsoft unveils the Azure OpenAI Service at Ignite 2021, allowing Azure customers to directly access OpenAI's powerful GPT-3 API. This new tool launches as an invite-only platform and operates as an Azure Cognitive Service to provide enterprise-grade security, compliance, and reliability.
The partnership builds on Microsoft's existing relationship with OpenAI, which includes a previous $1 billion investment and an exclusive license for the GPT-3 API. The GPT-3 model is an autoregressive language tool that converts natural language into software code and summarizes large blocks of text, though the collaboration draws criticism from some who argue the exclusive deal keeps the model from being truly open.
Despite the controversy, Microsoft moves forward with the integration to help cloud customers discover new business outputs. A Microsoft corporate vice president notes that the tech world is only in the beginning stages of realizing the full potential of GPT-3, and the Azure OpenAI Service promises enhanced management and networking capabilities over the standard API.