In December 2023, Microsoft announced that it launched a public preview of OpenAI’s GPT-4 major language model with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service. Today, the company announced that GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is now generally available to its Azure OpenAI Service customers,

in a blog postMicrosoft stated that customers in the Sweden Central and US East 2 Azure OpenAI regions can deploy the new “gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09” model. The blog adds:

Our customers and partners have used GPT-4 Turbo with Vision to create new processes, improve efficiency and innovate within their businesses. Applications range from retailers improving the online shopping experience, to media and entertainment companies enriching digital asset management, and various organizations deriving insights from charts and diagrams

Certain features, such as optical character recognition (OCR), object grounding, video prompts, and “Azure OpenAI Service on your data with images,” which were available in the public preview model, are not currently available in the generally available version. Microsoft stated that it is “actively exploring how to best integrate these features” for future updates of the model.

Microsoft also added that “JSON mode and a function that calls inference requests that include image (vision) inputs” will be added to the new model for Azure OpenAI Service customers in the near future.

The company previously announced that pricing for GPT-4 Turbo with Vision for Azure OpenAI Service customers will be $0.01 per 1000 tokens for input and $0.03 per 1000 tokens for output, with different pricing for enhanced features.

Microsoft recently announced that it is testing a new “risk and safety monitoring” feature in the Azure OpenAI service. It’s designed to give businesses a real-time view of how their AI systems are performing. It also gives them a way to see if people, like hackers, are trying to abuse those systems.