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Jacob Carpenter

Microsoft leveraged its cloud business to access OpenAI’s tech. Will other Big Tech giants follow?

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT is quickly moving from exhilarating novelty to enterprise cornerstone—and spotlighting a fast-emerging power dynamic in the process.

Microsoft officials announced Monday that the tech titan’s Azure cloud customers are getting broad access to the generative A.I. tech developed by OpenAI, including the systems behind the ChatGPT chatbot and DALL-E 2 text-to-image generator. Microsoft initially made much of OpenAI’s tech available via Azure in late 2021, but a limited number of customers were granted access. 

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