Azure chat completions example (preview)

Note: There is a newer version of the openai library available. See https://github.com/openai/openai-python/discussions/742

This example will cover chat completions using the Azure OpenAI service.

Setup

First, we install the necessary dependencies.

For the following sections to work properly we first have to setup some things. Let's start with the api_base and api_version. To find your api_base go to https://portal.azure.com, find your resource and then under "Resource Management" -> "Keys and Endpoints" look for the "Endpoint" value.

We next have to setup the api_type and api_key. We can either get the key from the portal or we can get it through Microsoft Active Directory Authentication. Depending on this the api_type is either azure or azure_ad.

Setup: Portal

Let's first look at getting the key from the portal. Go to https://portal.azure.com, find your resource and then under "Resource Management" -> "Keys and Endpoints" look for one of the "Keys" values.

Note: In this example, we configured the library to use the Azure API by setting the variables in code. For development, consider setting the environment variables instead:

OPENAI_API_BASE
OPENAI_API_KEY
OPENAI_API_TYPE
OPENAI_API_VERSION

(Optional) Setup: Microsoft Active Directory Authentication

Let's now see how we can get a key via Microsoft Active Directory Authentication. Uncomment the following code if you want to use Active Directory Authentication instead of keys from the portal.

A token is valid for a period of time, after which it will expire. To ensure a valid token is sent with every request, you can refresh an expiring token by hooking into requests.auth:

Deployments

In this section we are going to create a deployment using the gpt-35-turbo model that we can then use to create chat completions.

Deployments: Create manually

Let's create a deployment using the gpt-35-turbo model. Go to https://portal.azure.com, find your resource and then under "Resource Management" -> "Model deployments" create a new gpt-35-turbo deployment.

Create chat completion

Now let's send a sample chat completion to the deployment.

We can also stream the response.