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Working with Azure OpenAI models

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Azure OpenAI Service is powered by a diverse set of models with different capabilities and price points. Model availability varies by region.

You can get a list of models that are available for both inference and fine-tuning by your Azure OpenAI resource by using the Models List API.

Model updates

Azure OpenAI now supports automatic updates for select model deployments. On models where automatic update support is available, a model version drop-down is visible in Azure OpenAI Studio under Create new deployment and Edit deployment:

Screenshot of the deploy model UI of Azure OpenAI Studio.

You can learn more about Azure OpenAI model versions and how they work in the Azure OpenAI model versions article.

Auto update to default

When you set your deployment to Auto-update to default, your model deployment is automatically updated within two weeks of a change in the default version. For a preview version, it updates automatically when a new preview version is available starting two weeks after the new preview version is released.

If you're still in the early testing phases for inference models, we recommend deploying models with auto-update to default set whenever it's available.

Specific model version

As your use of Azure OpenAI evolves, and you start to build and integrate with applications you might want to manually control model updates. You can first test and validate that your application behavior is consistent for your use case before upgrading.

When you select a specific model version for a deployment, this version remains selected until you either choose to manually update yourself, or once you reach the retirement date for the model. When the retirement date is reached the model will automatically upgrade to the default version at the time of retirement.

Viewing retirement dates

For currently deployed models, from Azure OpenAI Studio select Deployments:

Screenshot of the deployment UI of Azure OpenAI Studio.

To view retirement dates for all available models in a given region from Azure OpenAI Studio, select Models > Column options > Select Deprecation fine tune and Deprecation inference:

Screenshot of the models UI of Azure OpenAI Studio.

Model deployment upgrade configuration

You can check what model upgrade options are set for previously deployed models in Azure OpenAI Studio. Select Deployments > Under the deployment name column select one of the deployment names that are highlighted in blue.

Screenshot of the deployments pane with a deployment name highlighted.

Selecting a deployment name opens the Properties for the model deployment. You can view what upgrade options are set for your deployment under Version update policy:

Screenshot of the model deployments property UI.

The corresponding property can also be accessed via REST, Azure PowerShell, and Azure CLI.

Option Read Update
REST Yes. If versionUpgradeOption is not returned, it means it is null Yes
Azure PowerShell Yes.VersionUpgradeOption can be checked for $null Yes
Azure CLI Yes. It shows null if versionUpgradeOption is not set. No. It is currently not possible to update the version upgrade option.

There are three distinct model deployment upgrade options:

Name Description
OnceNewDefaultVersionAvailable Once a new version is designated as the default, the model deployment automatically upgrades to the default version within two weeks of that designation change being made.
OnceCurrentVersionExpired Once the retirement date is reached the model deployment automatically upgrades to the current default version.
NoAutoUpgrade The model deployment never automatically upgrades. Once the retirement date is reached the model deployment stops working. You need to update your code referencing that deployment to point to a nonexpired model deployment.

Note

null is equivalent to AutoUpgradeWhenExpired. If the Version update policy option is not present in the properties for a model that supports model upgrades this indicates the value is currently null. Once you explicitly modify this value, the property is visible in the studio properties page as well as via the REST API.

Examples

Review the Azure PowerShell getting started guide to install Azure PowerShell locally or you can use the Azure Cloud Shell.

The steps below demonstrate checking the VersionUpgradeOption option property as well as updating it:

// Step 1: Get Deployment
$deployment = Get-AzCognitiveServicesAccountDeployment -ResourceGroupName {ResourceGroupName} -AccountName {AccountName} -Name {DeploymentName}
 
// Step 2: Show Deployment VersionUpgradeOption
$deployment.Properties.VersionUpgradeOption
 
// VersionUpgradeOption can be null - one way to check is
$null -eq $deployment.Properties.VersionUpgradeOption
 
// Step 3: Update Deployment VersionUpgradeOption
$deployment.Properties.VersionUpgradeOption = "NoAutoUpgrade"
New-AzCognitiveServicesAccountDeployment -ResourceGroupName {ResourceGroupName} -AccountName {AccountName} -Name {DeploymentName} -Properties $deployment.Properties -Sku $deployment.Sku
 
// repeat step 1 and 2 to confirm the change.
// If not sure about deployment name, use this command to show all deployments under an account
Get-AzCognitiveServicesAccountDeployment -ResourceGroupName {ResourceGroupName} -AccountName {AccountName}

// To update to a new model version

// Step 1: Get Deployment
$deployment = Get-AzCognitiveServicesAccountDeployment -ResourceGroupName {ResourceGroupName} -AccountName {AccountName} -Name {DeploymentName}

// Step 2: Show Deployment Model properties
$deployment.Properties.Model.Version

// Step 3: Update Deployed Model Version
$deployment.Properties.Model.Version = "0613"
New-AzCognitiveServicesAccountDeployment -ResourceGroupName {ResourceGroupName} -AccountName {AccountName} -Name {DeploymentName} -Properties $deployment.Properties -Sku $deployment.Sku

// repeat step 1 and 2 to confirm the change.

Update & deploy models via the API

PUT https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts/{accountName}/deployments/{deploymentName}?api-version=2023-05-01

Path parameters

Parameter Type Required? Description
acountname string Required The name of your Azure OpenAI Resource.
deploymentName string Required The deployment name you chose when you deployed an existing model or the name you would like a new model deployment to have.
resourceGroupName string Required The name of the associated resource group for this model deployment.
subscriptionId string Required Subscription ID for the associated subscription.
api-version string Required The API version to use for this operation. This follows the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Supported versions

Request body

This is only a subset of the available request body parameters. For the full list of the parameters, you can refer to the REST API reference documentation.

Parameter Type Description
versionUpgradeOption String Deployment model version upgrade options:
OnceNewDefaultVersionAvailable
OnceCurrentVersionExpired
NoAutoUpgrade
capacity integer This represents the amount of quota you are assigning to this deployment. A value of 1 equals 1,000 Tokens per Minute (TPM)

Example request

curl -X PUT https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/resource-group-temp/providers/Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts/docs-openai-test-001/deployments/gpt-35-turbo?api-version=2023-05-01 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN' \
  -d '{"sku":{"name":"Standard","capacity":120},"properties": {"model": {"format": "OpenAI","name": "gpt-35-turbo","version": "0613"},"versionUpgradeOption":"OnceCurrentVersionExpired"}}'

Note

There are multiple ways to generate an authorization token. The easiest method for initial testing is to launch the Cloud Shell from the Azure portal. Then run az account get-access-token. You can use this token as your temporary authorization token for API testing.

Example response

 {
  "id": "/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/resource-group-temp/providers/Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts/docs-openai-test-001/deployments/gpt-35-turbo",
  "type": "Microsoft.CognitiveServices/accounts/deployments",
  "name": "gpt-35-turbo",
  "sku": {
    "name": "Standard",
    "capacity": 120
  },
  "properties": {
    "model": {
      "format": "OpenAI",
      "name": "gpt-35-turbo",
      "version": "0613"
    },
    "versionUpgradeOption": "OnceCurrentVersionExpired",
    "capabilities": {
      "chatCompletion": "true"
    },
    "provisioningState": "Succeeded",
    "rateLimits": [
      {
        "key": "request",
        "renewalPeriod": 10,
        "count": 120
      },
      {
        "key": "token",
        "renewalPeriod": 60,
        "count": 120000
      }
    ]
  },
  "systemData": {
    "createdBy": "docs@contoso.com",
    "createdByType": "User",
    "createdAt": "2023-02-28T02:57:15.8951706Z",
    "lastModifiedBy": "docs@contoso.com",
    "lastModifiedByType": "User",
    "lastModifiedAt": "2023-10-31T15:35:53.082912Z"
  },
  "etag": "\"GUID\""
}

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