“ChatGPT is coming shortly to the Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available,” CEO Satya Nadella tweeted on Tuesday morning.

Microsoft said that it will soon bring OpenAI’s popular artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service. The software behemoth also announced the ‘wide availability’ of its Azure OpenAI Service, which provides clients with access to a variety of AI tools for use in their own apps. The announcement comes amid rumours that the business is aiming to increase its $1 billion interest in OpenAI, which it revealed in 2019.

With the latest enhancements, ChatGPT will soon be available via Microsoft’s cloud, not simply its underlying technology. Those who use the Azure Service already have access to technologies such as the GPT-3.5 language system, on which ChatGPT is built, and the Dall-E model for generating images from text prompts.

Microsoft Corp announced on Monday that it was expanding access to immensely popular software from OpenAI, a business it is investing in and whose futuristic ChatGPT has captivated Silicon Valley.

Following the November release of the text-based chatbot that can generate prose, poetry, or even computer code on command, public interest in OpenAI skyrocketed. It uses generative artificial intelligence to generate fresh content after training on massive amounts of data.

The company has stated that it is assessing clients’ apps to reduce potential software abuse, and its filters can screen for malicious content that users may submit or that the technology may produce.

The commercial potential of such software has resulted in huge venture capital investment in firms generating it, at a time when money is otherwise scarce.