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.

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,

Elon Musk, despite an ongoing lawsuit with Microsoft and OpenAI, appeared virtually at Microsoft’s Build conference. AI chatbot Grok will be hosted on Microsoft Azure. The move places Grok AI on the same platform alongside competitors like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s models.