“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.

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.

Despite its recent misinformation controversies, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has landed a new deal with Microsoft. Just a matter of days after two controversies that first saw Grok make unprompted right-wing claims about a “white genocide” in South Africa,