Microsoft is preparing to host Musk's Grok AI model

According to The Verge, a reliable source familiar with Microsoft's plans has revealed that Microsoft has been instructing engineers in its artificial intelligence infrastructure to be ready to host Musk's Grok AI model. In recent weeks, Microsoft has been in discussions with xAI about hosting the Grok model and making it available to customers and Microsoft's own product teams through Azure Cloud as a Service. The move is likely to cause controversy internally and further inflame tensions with Microsoft partner OpenAI. It is reported that if the deal goes ahead, Grok will be available on Microsoft's artificial intelligence development platform, Azure AI Foundry, which gives developers access to artificial intelligence services, tools, and pre-built models to build artificial intelligence applications and agents. This will enable developers to plug into Grok and use it in their own applications, and Microsoft could potentially use the artificial intelligence model in its own applications and services.