Addition of the chatbot everyone’s talking about, and to, comes as Azure OpenAI goes GA
Microsoft has promised it will «soon» offer the ChatGPT AI chatbot as a service from its Azure cloud.
The software giant on Monday announced its existing Azure OpenAI service has opened up to general availability (GA). It is, notably, not available everywhere just yet though.
Microsoft also appears not to have changed its requirement for would-be customers to apply for access to the service or to be a managed customer. When your correspondent logged in with a personal Azure account used for occasional footling, OpenAI services were listed – but none were available.
Microsoft’s decision not to offer Azure OpenAI in «grab your credit card and get going» mode is probably related to its use of specialized hardware rather than Azure’s generic x86 and Arm boxen.
