• In recent months several questions have been raised regarding ChatGPT and whether it should be integrated into business applications.
• One company that thinks it should is Microsoft, which has announced that it will feature in its Azure Open Ai service “soon”.
• Along with working closer with ChatGPT’s creators, OpenAI, Microsoft is also said to be readying a sizeable investment into the company.

We have tracked and covered the development of ChatGPT with increasing scrutiny in recent weeks. While we sit on the fence as to whether this impressive platform developed by OpenAI should feature in more industries, it looks like Microsoft is wasting no time in integrating.

This as Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, tweeted out that ChatGPT would be making its way to the company’s Azure OpenAI service, which is very much an enterprise-facing side of the business.

A more precise date has not been mentioned at the time of writing, with the integration only said to be happening “soon”. Nadella and his team did, however, note that version 3.5 of ChatGPT would be the iteration it was looking to add.

It will then be one of several AI-enabled tools that Microsoft makes available to its enterprise cloud customers via Azure, which too is expanding its accessibility.

“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. 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,” Microsoft explained in a blog post.

Along with this announcement, it appears as if Microsoft is preparing to deepen its investment in OpenAI. While unconfirmed at the time of writing, reports suggest the company is planning to invest as much as $10 billion into the company, having previously invested $1 billion back in 2019.

Either way it looks like Microsoft is betting big on AI, and aiming to integrate the technology into more of its offerings down the line. How regulators and authorities will view this remains to be seen, as we have already seen ChatGPT banned in some instances, particularly when it comes to plagiarism and cheating in the academic field.

For now though, Microsoft will be leveraging more of these types of solutions to make Azure the platform where developers and enterprises build cutting-edge AI applications.

“The general availability of Azure OpenAI Service is not only an important milestone for our customers but also for Azure,” added Microsoft.

“Azure OpenAI Service provides businesses and developers with high-performance AI models at production scale with industry-leading uptime,” it concluded.

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