The general availability of the Azure OpenAI service extends access to larger and more advanced AI models with additional enterprise benefits. Azure blog and updates

Large language models are quickly becoming an important platform for people to innovate, apply AI to solve big problems, and imagine what’s possible. Today, as part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to democratizing AI, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the Azure OpenAI service. Continuous cooperation with OpenAI.

With the Azure OpenAI service now generally available, more businesses can apply to access the world’s most advanced AI models—including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2—with trusted enterprise-grade capabilities and the AI-optimized infrastructure of Microsoft Azure, to create great applications. Customers can access the GPT-3.5 fine-tuned ChatGPT, which is recently trained through the Azure OpenAI service and processes data on the Azure AI infrastructure.

Encourage customers to achieve more

We launched the Azure OpenAI service in November 2021 to enable our customers to harness the power of large-scale AI models across the enterprise.Our customers benefit from our Azure cloud and computing infrastructure – security, reliability, compliance, data privacy and built-in responsible AI capabilities.

Since then, one of the most exciting things we’ve seen is the breadth of use cases Azure OpenAI Service enables our customers—from Generate content that helps better match consumers with the right purchases To summarize customer service tickets, freeing up time for employees to focus on more important tasks.

Customers of all sizes across industries are using Azure OpenAI services to do more with less, improve experiences for end users, and streamline operations internally. From startups like Moveworks to global corporations like KPMG, small and large organizations are implementing Azure OpenAI services for advanced use cases such as customer support, customization and search, data mining and classification, and gaining insights from data.

“At Moveworks, we see Azure OpenAI Service as an important part of our machine learning architecture. It allows us to solve many new use cases, such as identifying gaps in our customers’ internal knowledge base and automatically generating new knowledge articles based on those gaps. This saves IT and HR teams a significant amount of time and improves employee self-service. Azure OpenAI Services will significantly enhance our existing enterprise search capabilities and complement our analytics and data visualization offerings. With so much of the modern enterprise relying on language to get work done, the possibilities are endless – and we look forward to continued collaboration and partnership with Azure OpenAI Service.–Vaibhav Nivargi, Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Moveworks.

“Al Jazeera Digital is constantly looking for new ways to use technology to support our journalism and better serve our audience. The Azure OpenAI service has the potential to enhance our content production in a number of ways, including summarization and translation, topic selection, AI tagging, content extraction and style guide enforcement. We’re excited to see the service move to general access to help us put more context into our reporting by relaying ideas and other feedback.–Jason McCartney, Vice President of Engineering at Al Jazeera.

“KPMG is using Azure OpenAI services to help companies realize significant efficiencies in their tax ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) initiatives. Companies are moving to publicly report their total tax contributions. Many of these tax payments are buried in non-financial IT systems, with large volumes of data and incomplete data attributes. , Azure OpenAI Service finds data relationships to predict tax payments and tax type—making it much easier to ensure accuracy and categorize payments by country and tax type.–Brett Weaver, Partner, Tax ESG Leader at KPMG.

Azure – the best place to build AI workloads

The overall delivery of Azure OpenAI services is a milestone not only for our customers, but also for Azure.

Azure OpenAI Service provides businesses and developers with production-grade, high-performance AI models with industry-leading uptime. This is the same product service that Microsoft uses to power its own products. GitHub Assistant PilotAn AI pair programmer that helps developers write better code; Power BIIt uses GPT-3-powered natural language to automatically generate formulas and expressions, and the recently announced Microsoft DesignerHelping creators build amazing content with natural language queries.

All of these innovations share a common thread: Azure’s purpose-built, AI-optimized infrastructure.

Azure is the core computing power behind the OpenAI API’s family of models for research development and developer production.

Azure is currently the only global public cloud that offers AI supercomputers with massive scalability and scalability. With a unique architecture that combines leading GPU and networking solutions, Azure delivers best-in-class performance and scalability for the widest range of AI training and reference workloads. That’s why the world’s leading AI companies – incl Open AImeta, Hug face, and others – continue to choose Azure to drive their AI innovation. Azure currently ranks in the top 15 TOP500 supercomputers It is the world’s top rated cloud service provider worldwide and today. Azure continues to be the cloud and computing powerhouse that powers large-scale AI developments around the world.

Source: TOP500 Details: TOP500 November 2022, Green 500 November 2022.

A responsible approach to AI

As an industry leader, we recognize that any innovation in AI must be done responsibly. This becomes even more important with powerful and innovative technologies such as generative models. We’ve taken an iterative approach to large-scale models, working closely with our partner OpenAI and our customers to carefully evaluate use cases, learn and address potential risks. In addition, we have implemented our own security measures for the Azure OpenAI service that are compatible with ours. Principles of responsible AI. As part of us Limited access frameworkDevelopers are wanted Apply for accessDescribing your intended use case or application before providing access to the Service. Content filters specially designed to catch abusive, hateful and offensive content continuously monitor input and generated content to the Service. In the event of a confirmed policy violation, we may require the developer to take immediate action to prevent further abuse.

We are confident in the quality of the AI ​​models we use and deliver to customers today, and we strongly believe they will inspire businesses and people to create in completely new and exciting ways.

The pace of innovation in the AI ​​community is moving at lightning speed. We’re excited to be at the forefront of these developments with our customers, and look forward to helping more people benefit from them in 2023 and beyond.

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