Starting from Today, Microsoft has made ChatGPT available in its own Azure OpenAI service. This will now allow developers as well as businesses to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT model into their own cloud apps, enabling conversational AI in many more apps and services.
According to Microsoft, Azure OpenAI users can start to access a preview of ChatGPT today, with pricing set at $0.002 for 1,000 tokens. Billing for all ChatGPT usage begins on the 13th of March as part of Azure OpenAI. Developers, however, will need to apply for special access, as the Azure OpenAI Service requires registration and is “currently only available to Microsoft managed customers and partners.”
The cloud service from Microsoft also features a number of other AI models from OpenAI. This includes GPT-3.5, Codex and DALL-E. Microsoft purchased an exclusive license to the underlying technology behind GPT-3 in 2020 following a $1 billion investment in OpenAI in 2019. They have managed to build a deep relationship with OpenAI ever since and recently extended its partnership in a “multibillion dollar investment” making Microsoft the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI.
