Microsoft and Elon Musk team up to bring Grok 3 to Microsoft users amid legal battle between Musk and Open AI/Microsoft.

Tesla founder Elon Musk threatened OpenAI with a lawsuit during a recent interview, claiming that because he gave the outfit its first $50 Million that he should be able to control it for its entire existence.

Microsoft is bringing the Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini AI models from Elon Musk’s xAI to its Azure AI Foundry platform, as new offerings hosted and billed directly by Microsoft from within the company’s cloud platform.

The announcement was made at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Monday, and was notable given Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. Musk founded xAI, the startup behind Grok, but he has also been locked in a feud with OpenAI since stepping down from its board in the late 2010s, citing disagreements over its leadership direction.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is seen onstage at a conference Monday in Seattle after a prerecorded interview with Elon Musk was played following the announcement that Grok AI, developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, will be available on some Microsoft platforms. (Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images)

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Musk’s deal means that the latest versions of xAI’s Grok models will be hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, alongside competing models from OpenAI and other companies, including Facebook parent Meta Platforms.

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After Holocaust denial and claims of white genocide, I don't think Grok is the AI model you want to associate with right now.

Liberal writers wasted no time dancing on his political grave, with The Atlantic tracing “The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk” and a New York Times op-ed declaring that history “broke him.” (It wasn’t just liberals: Musk fan and Trumpian culture warrior Christopher Rufo took a moment to lament that “Washington Got the Better of Elon.”)