Microsoft on Monday turned one of many first hyperscalers to supply managed entry to Grok, the AI mannequin developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI.
Accessible by way of Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok — particularly Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini — will “have all of the service-level agreements Azure prospects count on from any Microsoft product,” says Microsoft. They’ll even be billed straight by Microsoft, as is the case with the opposite fashions hosted in Azure AI Foundry.
When Musk introduced Grok a number of years in the past, he pitched the AI mannequin as edgy, unfiltered, and anti-“woke” — basically, prepared to reply controversial questions different AI techniques merely received’t. He delivered on a few of that promise. Informed to be vulgar, for instance, Grok will fortunately oblige, spewing colourful language you probably wouldn’t hear from ChatGPT.
In accordance with SpeechMach, a benchmark evaluating how totally different fashions deal with delicate topics, Grok 3 is among the many extra permissive fashions.
Grok, which powers quite a few options on X, Musk’s social community, has been the topic of a lot controversy recently. A recent report discovered that Grok would undress pictures of girls when requested. In February, Grok briefly censored unflattering mentions of Donald Trump and Musk. And simply final week, an “unauthorized modification” induced Grok to repeatedly check with white genocide in South Africa when invoked in sure contexts.
The Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini fashions in Azure AI Foundry are decidedly extra locked down than the Grok fashions on X. In addition they include further information integration, customization, and governance capabilities not essentially provided by xAI by way of its API.