Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has released its latest models, Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini, on Microsoft Azure. With this move, Microsoft becomes one of the first hyperscalers to offer managed access to Grok.

“These models will have all the service level agreements (SLAs) Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,” says Microsoft. The Grok AI models will be hosted and billed directly by Microsoft, and offered to its own product teams and customers through its Azure AI Foundry service.

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