Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s AI startup, xAI. <\/p>\n
Available through Microsoft\u2019s Azure AI Foundry platform, Grok \u2014 specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini<\/a> \u2014 will \u201chave all the service-level agreements\u00a0Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,\u201d says Microsoft. They\u2019ll also be billed directly by Microsoft, as is the case with the other models hosted in Azure AI Foundry.<\/p>\n When Musk announced Grok several years ago, he pitched the AI model as edgy, unfiltered, and anti-\u201cwoke\u201d \u2014 in general, willing to answer controversial questions other AI systems simply won\u2019t. He delivered on some of that promise. Told to be vulgar, for example, Grok will happily oblige, spewing colorful language you likely wouldn\u2019t hear from\u00a0ChatGPT<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to SpeechMap, a benchmark comparing how different models treat sensitive subjects, Grok 3 is among the more permissive models<\/a>.<\/p>\n Grok, which powers a number of features on X, Musk\u2019s social network, has been the subject of much controversy lately. A recent report<\/a>\u00a0found that Grok would undress photos of women when asked. In February, Grok\u00a0briefly censored<\/a>\u00a0unflattering mentions of Donald Trump and Musk. And just last week, an \u201cunauthorized modification\u201d caused Grok to\u00a0repeatedly refer<\/a> to\u00a0white genocide in South Africa when invoked in certain contexts. <\/p>\n The Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini models in Azure AI Foundry are decidedly more locked down than the Grok models on X. They also come with additional data integration, customization, and governance capabilities not necessarily offered by xAI through its API<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,43871,9328,45128,53,16,15,1604],"class_list":{"0":"post-115003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-azure","11":"tag-grok","12":"tag-microsoft-build","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-xai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114535921604572436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}