Azure OpenAI Service

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Microsoft's enterprise offering of OpenAI models through Azure. Provides access to GPT-4, GPT-3.5, DALL-E, Whisper, and embedding models with Azure's enterprise security, compliance, and regional availability. Includes features like content filtering, private endpoints, and managed identity integration.

Implements

Concepts this tool claims to implement:

  • Inference Endpoint primary

    REST API compatible with OpenAI's API format. Chat completions, completions, and embeddings endpoints. Streaming support.

  • Model Serving primary

    Managed deployment of OpenAI models. Provisioned throughput units (PTUs) for guaranteed capacity. Regional deployments for latency and compliance requirements.

  • Embedding secondary

    text-embedding-ada-002 and newer embedding models. Azure AI Search integration for vector search.

  • Fine-Tuning secondary

    Fine-tuning for GPT-3.5-turbo and other supported models. Training data upload and management through Azure.

Integration Surfaces

  • REST API (OpenAI-compatible)
  • Python SDK (openai with azure config)
  • Azure SDK
  • Azure Portal
  • LangChain integration

Details

Vendor
Microsoft
License
Proprietary
Runs On
cloud
Used By
human, agent, system

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Notes

Azure OpenAI is the go-to for enterprises needing OpenAI models with corporate compliance. Same models as OpenAI but with Azure security, private networking, and regional data residency. API is mostly compatible with OpenAI's, making migration easy.

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