Microsoft is teaming up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 for its technical innovations to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions, as well as create new solutions using advanced natural language generation. OpenAI will continue to offer GPT-3 and other powerful models via its own Azure-hosted API, launched in June.
“We see this as an incredible opportunity to expand our Azure-powered AI platform in a way that democratizes AI technology, enables new products, services and experiences, and increases the positive impact of AI at Scale,” according to a Microsoft blog.
The scope of commercial and creative potential that can be unlocked through the GPT-3 model is profound, with genuinely novel capabilities: directly aiding human creativity and ingenuity in areas like writing and composition, describing and summarizing large blocks of long-form data (including code), converting natural language to another language.