spaCy-LLM package integration with Azure OpenAI Service

[AashishTiwari]

Thanks for the latest LLM integration into spaCy. Need advice on whether the package https://github.com/explosion/spacy-llm will support Azure OpenAI Service in recent future or what changes are suggested (best practice) for a hack till there is official support.

One way to do this is by using LangChain https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/blob/master/langchain/llms/openai.py and then use AzureOpenAI using Langchain? Just confirming if that's inline with best practice.

[rmitsch]

Hi @AashishTiwari! While we're planning to add native support for more APIs (next up are probably Cohere, PALM, Anthropic), I can't give you an exact date on when we'll do so for Azure's OpenAI API.

So yes, our recommendation for using any API not natively supported is to use the langchain or minichain integration.