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.

The purchase — the largest in OpenAI’s history — will provide the company with a dedicated unit for developing AI-powered devices.

Elon Musk reaffirms commitment to Tesla and addresses political backlash, saying he’ll reduce campaign spending.

What's more, they've done little to shake the ire of OpenAI's nemesis and onetime co-founder, Elon Musk, who's staying the course with a legal war against the company's attempted restructuring. All of this comes as OpenAI finds itself beset by challengers ...

A day devoted to Microsoft's bold vision for the future included a guest appearance by Elon Musk and protesters at the gates, all preceded by sweeping layoffs.

Oracle will purchase around 400,000 of Nvidia’s GB200 chips — its latest “superchip” for training and running AI systems — and lease the computing power to OpenAI, according to several people familiar with the matter.

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.”)