In the blog post, Microsoft’s Vice President of the AI Platform, Eric Boyd, said “With Azure OpenAI Service now generally available, more businesses can apply for access to the most advanced AI models in the world—including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2—backed by the trusted enterprise-grade capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure of Microsoft Azure, to create cutting-edge applications.”

He added, “Customers will also be able to access ChatGPT—a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 that has been trained and runs inference on Azure AI infrastructure—through Azure OpenAI Service soon.”

As per reports, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT in 2019, and an additional $2 billion to support its development, with plans to invest another $10 billion to challenge competitors such as Google, Amazon, and Apple.

OpenAI is also developing GPT-4, a more advanced ‘generative AI’ that may generate images as well as text, according to a report by The New York Times. Microsoft employees and venture capitalists have reportedly seen it in action, but Microsoft has not confirmed its plans for release.

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