Setting up an Azure OpenAI service

Azure OpenAI Service is a cloud-based offering from Microsoft Azure that provides access to OpenAI’s powerful language models. A large language model (LLM) is an optimized cost-function, trained on human texts, that can generate human-like text, allowing you to take chatbots, content generation, or language translation to the next level. By leveraging the Azure OpenAI service, you can integrate advanced AI capabilities into your Blazor application without managing the underlying infrastructure. You’re also getting access to existing GPT models.

Let’s set up an Azure OpenAI service in the Azure cloud using the Azure portal, deploy a dedicated GPT-4 model, and locate access details required for integration on the application side.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we won’t write any code just yet; instead, we will focus on setting up the Azure OpenAI service. To get started, here are some prerequisites:

• You will...