Elon Musk is in a authorized battle with Microsoft however made a pleasant digital look on the software program large’s annual expertise showcase to disclose that his Grok synthetic intelligence chatbot will now be hosted on Microsoft’s information facilities.
“It’s fantastic to have you at our developer conference,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated to Musk in a pre-recorded video dialog broadcast Monday at Microsoft’s Construct convention in Seattle.
Musk final yr sued Microsoft and its shut enterprise accomplice OpenAI in a dispute over Musk’s foundational contributions to OpenAI, which Musk helped begin. Musk now runs his personal AI firm, xAI, maker of Grok, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman additionally spoke with Nadella through reside video name earlier at Monday’s convention.
Musk’s deal signifies that the newest variations of xAI’s Grok fashions might be hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, alongside competing fashions from OpenAI and different corporations, together with Fb mum or dad Meta Platforms, Europe-based AI startups Mistral and Black Forest Labs and Chinese language firm DeepSeek.
The Grok partnership comes simply days after xAI needed to repair the chatbot to cease it from repeatedly mentioning South African racial politics and the topic of “white genocide” in public interactions with customers of Musk’s social media platform X. The corporate blamed an worker’s “unauthorized modification” for the unsolicited commentary, which mirrored South Africa-born Musk’s personal concentrate on the subject.
Musk didn’t deal with final week’s controversy in his chat with Nadella however described honesty because the “best policy” for AI security.
“We have and will make mistakes, but we aspire to correct them very quickly,” Musk stated.
Nadella was interrupted by protest over Gaza
Monday’s Construct convention additionally grew to become the newest Microsoft occasion to be interrupted by a protest over the corporate’s work with the Israeli authorities. Microsoft has beforehand fired staff who protested firm occasions, together with the firm’s fiftieth anniversary get together in April.
“Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians?” a protester shouted within the first minutes of Nadella’s introductory speak. “How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?”
Nadella continued his presentation because the protesters had been escorted out. Microsoft acknowledged final week that it offered AI companies to the Israeli navy for the struggle in Gaza however stated it has discovered no proof to this point that its Azure platform and AI applied sciences had been used to focus on or hurt individuals in Gaza.
