OpenAI launched ChatGPT in December 2022, immediately inspiring people and companies to pioneer novel use cases for large language models. It’s no wonder that ChatGPT reached 1 million users within a week of launch and 100 million users within two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

March is all about expanding existing capabilities, like configuring scheduled alerts for built-in views in Cost analysis, getting additional details about included costs in the Cost analysis preview, and remembering preview features that you previously enabled. You'll also see 9 new and updated cost savings opportunities, 1 new video, and 9 doc updates. Enjoy!

Today, we’re delivering improved observability and management with the general availability of our enhanced Microsoft Azure Arc integration with Datadog. Building on our established collaboration, we are natively integrating Datadog with Azure Arc to meet customers where they are and provide rich insights from Azure Arc–enabled resources directly into Datadog dashboards.

At Microsoft, we’re committed to democratizing AI and giving you access to advanced generative AI models. As part of that commitment, in 2019, we started a long-term partnership with OpenAI. In January 2023, we announced the third phase of this partnership, including the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service.

We are happy to announce Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM), your one-stop shop for managing the connectivity and security of your network resources at scale, as generally available.

Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-4 is available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. Customers and partners already using Azure OpenAI Service can join the waitlist to access GPT-4 and start building with OpenAI’s most advanced model yet. With this milestone, we are proud to bring the world’s most advanced AI models—including GPT-3.5, ChatGPT, and DALL•E 2—to Azure customers, backed by Azure AI-optimized infrastructure, enterprise-readiness, compliance, data security, and privacy controls, along with many integrations with other Azure services.

Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Energy is the first fully managed OSDU™ Data Platform built for the energy industry. This solution is the first step in unraveling the challenge of data—moving from disparate systems and disconnected applications to a holistic approach.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Firewall Basic, a new SKU of Azure Firewall built for SMBs.

Join Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC, a free online global technology conference (GTC), March 20–23 to learn how organizations of any size can power AI innovation with purpose-built cloud infrastructure from Microsoft.

The agriculture industry is at a turning point. While food may seem plentiful in many global regions, the number of people going hungry has continued to increase over the last nine years.