Microsoft plans to integrate Elon Musk's Grok AI model into its Azure cloud service via Azure AI Foundry.
This move hints at a potential shift in Microsoft's AI alliances away from OpenAI amidst tensions between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Grok will be accessible to developers on Azure AI Foundry for application development, with Microsoft providing hosting infrastructure but not compute for training future versions.
Microsoft's inclusion of Grok in its AI portfolio reflects a broader effort to diversify beyond OpenAI, having tested models from Meta, DeepSeek, and xAI for Copilot products.