SAN FRANCISCO — In a recent development, OpenAI has announced a licensing agreement with Microsoft, allowing the tech giant to integrate OpenAI’s cutting-edge GPT-3 technology into its suite of products and services. This agreement follows OpenAI’s launch of its first commercial product earlier this year, an API designed to empower developers with advanced capabilities for creating innovative applications and services.

OpenAI’s API, which features the immensely powerful GPT-3 model, has already garnered significant interest, receiving tens of thousands of applications since its debut. Under the terms of the multiyear partnership established last year, OpenAI will continue to offer GPT-3 and future models through its API while simultaneously granting Microsoft the license to leverage GPT-3 for its own proprietary solutions.

Crucially, this agreement ensures that developers and businesses currently using OpenAI’s API will experience no disruption in their access to GPT-3. Users will retain the ability to integrate the model seamlessly into their applications as they have been accustomed to, benefiting from its versatile capabilities across various English language tasks.

Unlike traditional AI systems limited to specific applications, OpenAI’s API provides a flexible “text in, text out” interface, enabling broad experimentation across diverse domains. GPT-3, renowned for its 175 billion parameters, represents the pinnacle of these capabilities within the API, complemented by additional models and customization tools that developers can utilize to tailor solutions to their specific needs.