Microsoft announced on Monday that it will now organize technology that has been developed by the artificial intelligence company of Elon Musk, Xai, on his cloud servers, which marks an important partnership between two technical giants despite recent recoil about the behavior of Xai's models.
The collaboration was unveiled during an event hosted by Microsoft in which Musk approached growing concern about the performance and reliability of Xai's language models. This development comes only a few days after the systems of Xai have generated controversial content, including references to the racially charged expression “white genocide” in the context of South Africa – giving widespread criticism of social media and industrial circles.
During the event, Musk recognized the missteps but defended the wider mission of the company. “Our models strive for truth with minimal errors,” he said. “Of course there will always be some mistakes that are made, but we are working on it to improve quickly.”
Earlier this year, the AI company of Elon Musk Grok 3 introduced, and it will now be accessible via Microsoft's Cloud computer platform, the company announced on Monday.
Tech Giants such as Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc. And Google are in severe competition to become the preferred platform for developing and implementing AI applications. This rivalry has changed cloud infrastructure to an important battlefield, where companies are racing to organize advanced AI models and offer advanced tools to manage their use.
Microsoft announced that users of its Azure Cloud platform now have access to more than 1,900 AI model variations, including those developed by the close collaborator OpenAI, as well as models of Meta Platforms Inc. And deep chat. The recording of the Grok models from Elon Musk is further expanding the offer. Big players such as Google from Alphabet Inc. And rising AI company Anthropic are still missing in the line -up.
At the kick -off of the annual Build Developer Conference of Microsoft on Monday, many of the highlights focused on new tools aimed at managing AI agents – systems that can perform tasks on behalf of users. Microsoft also revealed that its Windows operating system, together with other products, will support the model of Anthropic's Model Context protocol, a framework that is made to standardize interactions between AI systems.
“To make AI agents really effective, they need the opportunity to make contact with everything in the world,” said Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott during a presentation on Sunday at the headquarters of the company in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft and her subsidiary Github have also become members of the steering committee of the Context Protocol (MCP) model, which wants to standardize how AI systems act on each other.
Microsoft has established itself as an important player in the AI space, largely because of the substantial investment in OpenAI, the developer behind Chatgpt. The company has integrated AI in a wide range of tools for both office professionals and developers, bet that the boost in productivity and automation outweighs the enormous costs of the infrastructure – servers and data centers – needed to support these innovations.
On his Build Developer Conference on Monday, Microsoft revealed various new tools and functions to support companies and developers who work together with Generative AI. These include a model leader board to keep track of best performing AI systems, a function that helps developers automatically choose the most suitable model for a specific task and new solutions for companies that want to train custom AI models using their own data.
