Big announcement: official support from Microsoft!

[OkGoDoIt]

It's official! Microsoft reached out to me a month ago about transitioning this library into a new official C# OpenAI library and that's what we've been working on. Starting with v2.0.0-beta.1, the library now has full coverage and will stay fully up-to-date. More details in the blog post here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/openai-dotnet-library/
🎉

[MarkHelsinki]

Sounds like you have something exciting lined up.

[jakubbloksa]

Are you planning to update support for the new GPT-4o model with the new version?

[MarkHelsinki]

Are you planning to update support for the new GPT-4o model with the new version?

Good question: I tried manually updating the list of Models today by adding:

	```/// <summary>
	///	The latest GPT-4 Omni model with multimodal (accepting text or image inputs and outputting text), and same high intelligence as GPT-4 Turbo but more efficient—generates text 2x faster and is 50% cheaper. Additionally, GPT-4o has the best vision and performance across non-English languages of any of our models. 
	/// </summary>
	public static Model GPT4_Omni => new Model("gpt-4o-2024-05-13") { OwnedBy = "openai" };```

...but I'm not sure if it's because the files are added and maintained via NuGet, but the Model class is behaving as if it was readOnly.

[Tronald]

I was thinking things were abandoned and gearing up to have to convert my integrations. Thank you for speaking up. Will delay in this project. Excited to hear the news!

[OkGoDoIt]

I’m unfortunately not allowed to announce the details publicly for another week or two, but I promise it’ll be worth the wait. There’s gonna be a lot better and more official support coming soon. Keep an eye on the Microsoft blogs 😉

In the meantime, to answer @jakubbloksa and @MarkHelsinki , you can always pass in the model name as a string rather than using the strongly typed models class. Just use the model name identifier string that’s in the official OpenAI API docs. There’s an implicit cast of string to Model.

For example:

var chat = api.Chat.CreateConversation();
chat.Model = "gpt-4o";

[MarkHelsinki]

Sounds exciting. You must be pumped 🙂 Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a go. The new model is cheaper and improved language handling. So perfect for my use case.

[JulesVerny]

Here is hoping that is not a force towards us to be using Microsoft's Azure OpenAI services (and costs !)

[Tronald]

Let's go Roger! Congrats...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/openai-dotnet-library/

[OkGoDoIt]

It's official! Microsoft reached out to me a month ago about transitioning this library into a new official C# OpenAI library and that's what we've been working on. Starting with v2.0.0-beta.1, the library now has full coverage and will stay fully up-to-date. More details in the blog post here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/openai-dotnet-library/
🎉

[MarkHelsinki]

There was mention of a tutorial for transitioning from your gitHub version to the .NET official version. Is that coming online soon? I can see there are a few differences in variable names at least.

[Tronald]

@MarkHelsinki https://github.com/openai/openai-dotnet/blob/main/MigrationGuide.md