Elon Musk is in a legal fight with Microsoft but made a friendly virtual appearance on the annual software giant technology showcase to find out that his artificial intelligence chatbot will now be cut in Microsoft data centers.
“Fantastic fantastic to have at our developers’ conference,” Microsoft Satya Nadella’s CEO told Musk in a pre-registered video conversation on Monday at the Microsoft Conference in Seattle.
Musk sued Microsoft last year and his close business partner Openai in a dispute over Musk’s basic contributions to Openai, which Musk helped to begin. Musk now runs his company, Xai, the creator of Grok, a competitor of Openai’s chatgt.
Openai Director General Sam Altman also spoke with Nadella through a live video call earlier at Monday’s conference.
Musk’s deal means that the latest versions of Xai’s Grok models will be expected on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud computing platform, along with competing models from Openai and other companies, including Meta Facebook platforms, beginnings in Europe, Mistral and Black Forest Labs and Chinese company Deepseek.
The Grok partnership comes just days after Xai had to fix chatbot to stop him from bringing back the racial policy of South Africa and the subject of “White Genocide” in public interactions with users of Musk’s Social Media Platform X. The company blamed “unauthorized modification” by a colonized employee who South Africa Africa, on the topic.
Musk did not address last week’s controversy in his conversation with Nadella but described honesty as the “best policy” for him.
“We have and will make mistakes, but we aspire to correct them very quickly,” Musk said.
Nadella was interrupted by protest over Gaza
The Monday Conference also became Microsoft’s latest event that was interrupted by a protest for the work of the company with the Israeli government. Microsoft has previously rested employees who protested at the company’s events, including the 50th anniversary of the company in April.
“Satya, how to tell how Microsoft Palestinians are killing?” One protester shouted in the first minutes of Nadella’s introductory conversation. “What if you show how Israeli war crimes are made possible by Azure?”
Nadella continued his presentation as the protesters were escorted. Microsoft admitted last week that it offered him services to the Israeli army for the Gaza war, but said it has found no evidence so far that its Azure platform and technologies were used to target or damage people in Gaza.
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