Fine tuning is now available for GPT-3.5-Turbo with Azure OpenAI Service

Fine tuning allows you to customize large language models for specific tasks and it operates by customizing the large language model itself. Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service & Azure Machine Learning offer Supervised Fine Tuning, which allows you to provide custom data (prompt/completion or conversational chat) to teach the base model new skills.

Microsoft today announced a significant update for Azure OpenAI Service users. First, fine-tuning is now available for GPT-3.5-Turbo, Babbage-002, and Davinci-002 in Azure Machine Learning model catalog. Microsoft also announced the availability of two new base inference models (Babbage-002 and Davinci-002) in Azure Machine Learning model catalog.

• GPT-3.5-Turbo is the most capable and cost-effective OpenAI model available on Azure and it is optimized primarily for chat apps.
• Babbage-002 and Davinci-002 are much smaller in size and they can understand and generate natural language and code. But they don’t have instruction-following capabilities.

It is important to note that all three models depend on data before Sep 2021. Find the pricing details below:

You can learn more about Fine Tuning models here.