Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI.

Microsoft on Monday announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, bringing its controversial Grok models to the company’s cloud platform Azure. The news came during the kickoff of Microsoft’s Build developer conference,

Microsoft has added xAI's Grok 3 family to its Azure AI Foundry platform, seemingly unfazed by the firm's rivalry with Microsoft investee OpenAI or the chatbot's recent descent into conspiracy territory.