they have built by far the best AI infra out there.”But running these queries is also expensive– especially given ChatGPT crossed one million users in a just over a week.Altman had admitted in a response to a query by Elon Musk that the average cost of the “chat was still in single digits cents per chat,” but added that they will have to “monetise it somehow at some point; the compute costs are eye-watering.” Some estimates put the cost at $3 million per month, which has likely growing given it runs on the Azure cloud platform.Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure’s cloud service will make OpenAI’s ChatGPT accessible to its enterprise customers as well.https://t.co/kQwydRWWnZ— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) January 17, 2023In a blog post, Eric Boyd Corporate Vice President of AI Platform at Microsoft wrote that the Azure OpenAI service is now generally available and this will enable more businesses to “apply for access to the most advanced AI models in the world—including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2—backed by the trusted enterprise-grade capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure of Microsoft Azure, to create cutting-edge applications.” Azure is also the core computing power behind OpenAI’s many AI models.Boyd has also given examples of customers already using Azure OpenAI Service such as startups like Moveworks, Al Jazeera Digital, KPMG, etc."