Ask HN: How can I become a Microsoft “Managed Customer”?

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3 years ago

Hello, so I have a startup https://aidev.codes. Its a bit rough but if people are able to look past the lack of UI polish, I have connected the core technology, and many improvements in the works, such as moving to dialog-based and adding knowledgebase support (which the main part is finished). Currently I have to default to using text-davinci-003 instead of code-davinci-002 (Codex) which is the code-specific model. Because OpenAI's API is limited to 10-20 requests per minute for those models.

Now with the announcement about the partnership with Microsoft, apparently the code-davinci-002 is moving to "Azure OpenAI" and they tout it as "generally available". But in fact, it is limited to "managed customers and partners". You have to apply here:

- https://customervoice.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR7en2Ais5pxKtso_Pz4b1_xUOFA5Qk1UWDRBMjg0WFhPMkIzTzhKQ1dWNyQlQCN0PWcu

Would anyone be willing to act as an investor or partner to help me get the contacts or funding needed to keep my startup alive? I feel like I am going to just be locked out unless I have some "in" with Microsoft or access to more funds to become an "enterprise" "managed" customer or something. Also due to lack of funds I have to take small client projects related to the other website in order to stay afloat. I think this is hampering me to an incredible extent compared to less-skilled developers that have funding to hire more engineers and access the models at scale.

You can contact me at [email protected]

My github is runvnc. I also have another website https://algonfts.art and have been building small startups for more than 12 years.