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The big news about town is: Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available. Developers can apply to access OpenAI's APIs and get enterprise features. It includes GPT3.5, Codex, DALLE2, and (soon) ChatGPT.

We’ve been talking about how Microsoft + Open AI could be a threat to Google but watch out AWS. 👀 

Satya Nadella claims this will “help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives.” Read more coverage from the Verge.

Also, Open AI is making moves to increase AI adoption (and monetization). Last week Open AI put up a waitlist for paid access to the professional version of ChatGPT (link), and now a waitlist for ChatGPT API. (link)

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A trio of artists has filed a copyright lawsuit against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney (link). The lawsuit proposes that any image produced by the models is a derivative work of any input image. Here’s an article on why the technical part of this claim doesn’t hold up. (link)

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I was on the Creator Lab podcast recently and talked about the AI hype cycle, 2023 predictions & OpenAI vs Google vs Microsoft. (link)

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