Elon Musk, who is suing Microsoft, is also software giant’s guest in Grok AI partnership
Grok 3, which Musk’s AI outfit introduced earlier this year, will be available on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform

Elon Musk is in a legal fight with Microsoft but made a friendly virtual appearance at the software giant’s annual technology showcase to reveal that his Grok artificial intelligence chatbot will now be hosted on Microsoft’s data centres.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also spoke to Nadella via live video call earlier at Monday’s conference.
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, Europe-based AI startups Mistral and Black Forest Labs and Chinese company DeepSeek.
The Grok partnership comes just days after xAI had to fix the chatbot to stop it from repeatedly bringing up South African racial politics and the subject of “white genocide” in public interactions with users of Musk’s social media platform X. The company blamed an employee’s “unauthorised modification” for the unsolicited commentary, which mirrored South Africa-born Musk’s own focus on the topic.
