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xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure


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.

They’ll also be billed directly by Microsoft, as is the case with the other models hosted in Azure AI Foundry. Told to be vulgar, for example, Grok will happily oblige, spewing colorful language you likely wouldn’t hear from ChatGPT. And just last week, an “unauthorized modification” caused Grok to repeatedly refer to white genocide in South Africa when invoked in certain contexts.

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