From the course: Azure AI for Developers: OpenAI Services and Generative AI Models

What is Azure OpenAI Service?

- [Instructor] What is Azure OpenAI? To answer this, we need to understand what OpenAI is. OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research laboratory founded in 2015 consisting of the non-profit OpenAI Incorporated, and its for-profit subsidiary corporation. OpenAI Limited Partnership. OpenAI conducts AI research with a declared intention of promoting and developing a friendly AI. They developed large language models or LLMs like GPT, DALL-E and Whisper. Since Microsoft made a massive investment in the research center, they can offer these services on their own cloud platform, Azure. So Azure OpenAI is the models that OpenAI developed, but on the Azure platform and that are available via REST APIs and SDKs.

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