Microsoft Corp said Monday it is expanding access to wildly popular software from OpenAI, the startup it backs whose futuristic ChatGPT chatbot has taken Silicon Valley by storm. Microsoft said the startup’s technology, which it has so far demonstrated to its cloud computing customers in a program called Azure OpenAI Service, is now generally available, a distinction that is expected to bring a flurry of new uses.
The news comes as Microsoft considers adding to the $1 billion stake in OpenAI it announced in 2019, two people familiar with the matter. News website reported earlier this month that Microsoft may invest $10 billion; Microsoft declined to comment on any potential deal.
Public interest in OpenAI grew after the November release of ChatGPT, a text-based chatbot that can suggest prose, poetry or even computer code on command. ChatGPT is powered by generative artificial intelligence that conjures up new content after training on massive amounts of data—a technology that Microsoft has been asking more customers for.
ChatGPT itself, not just its underlying technology, will soon be available through Microsoft’s cloud, he said in a blog post. Microsoft said it screens customers’ apps to mitigate potential software abuse, and its filters can check for malicious content that users may input or that the technology may produce.
The business potential of such software has garnered massive venture capital investment in the startups that make it at a time when funding has otherwise dried up. Some companies have already used the technology to create marketing content or demonstrate how they could negotiate a cable bill. Microsoft said CarMax, KPMG and others use its Azure OpenAI service.
By: Vaishali Verma
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