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Jeffrey Dustin
(Reuters) – Microsoft (NASDAQ:) announced Monday that it is expanding access to its highly popular software from OpenAI.
The startup’s technology, previously previewed for cloud computing customers in a program called Azure OpenAI Service, is now generally available and is expected to see a flood of new uses, according to Microsoft.
The news comes as Microsoft considers adding a $1 billion stake in OpenAI, which it announced in 2019, two people familiar with the matter previously told Reuters. News site Semafor reported earlier this month that Microsoft could invest $10 billion. Microsoft declined to comment on a potential deal.
Public interest in OpenAI surged after the release of ChatGPT in November. ChatGPT is a text-based chatbot that can draft prose, poetry, and even computer code on command. ChatGPT is powered by generative artificial intelligence that generates new content after training on massive amounts of data. This is a technology that Microsoft is getting more and more customers to apply to use.
ChatGPT itself, as well as the underlying technology, will soon be available via Microsoft’s cloud, the company said in a blog post.
Microsoft says it scrutinizes customer applications to mitigate the potential for software abuse, and its filters remove potentially harmful content that users enter or technology generates. can be selected.
The business potential of such software has garnered large venture capital investments in the startups that create it. Some companies are already using this technology to create marketing content or show them how to negotiate cable rates.
According to Microsoft, CarMax (NYSE:), KPMG and others used the company’s Azure OpenAI service. That press release quotes Al He Jazeera vice president as saying the service could help news outlets summarize and translate content.