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What's the practical difference between this and OpenAI API?

All I can see is the same product but offered by a larger organization. I.e. they're more likely to get the security details right, and you can potentially win more in a lawsuit should things go bad.

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Compliance and customer trust. Azure can sign a BAA, for example. If you are Building LLM capability on top of your SaaS, your customers want assurances about their data.

A few months ago my team moved to Azure for capacity reasons. We were constantly dealing with 429 errors and couldn't get in touch with Open AI, while Azure offered more instances.

Eventually got more from Open AI so we load balance both. The only difference is the 3.5 turbo model on Azure is outdated.

you can ask for gpt-4, it took a while due to capacity constraints but we got it

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