In a bold move, Microsoft has partnered with Elon Musk's xAI to bring the Grok AI chatbot to its Azure cloud platform, even after recent backlash over the model's controversial responses. Announced during Microsoft's Build 2025 developer conference,

At the Build developer conference, it was revealed that xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini AI models are being added to Azure. Here's why Microsoft is ignoring Grok's sketchy history.

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.