Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperschools to provide administrative access to Grok, an AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk's AI startup, Xai.
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry Platform, Grok, particularly Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini-, will win all service-level contracts that Azure customers expect from Microsoft products,” said Microsoft. It is also billed directly by Microsoft, just like with any other model hosted on Azure AI Foundry.
When Musk unveiled Grok a few years ago, he pitched the AI model as an edgy, unfiltered, anti-'awakening'. He told me some of those promises. For example, being told that it is vulgar, Grok is willing to obligate and spit out colorful languages he hasn't heard from ChatGpt.
According to SpeechMach, the Grok 3, a benchmark that compares how different models treat sensitive subjects, is one of the more tolerant models.
Grok, which promotes many features of Musk's social network X, has been the subject of much controversy recently. A recent report found that Grok took off the photo of the woman when asked. In February, Grok temporarily censored the flattering references of Donald Trump and Musk. And last week, “incorrect fixes” meant that Grok repeatedly pointed to the white genocide of South Africa when called out in a specific context.
Azure AI Foundry's Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini models are clearly locked down than the Grok model of X. It also includes additional data integration, customization, and governance features that are not offered by Xai through the API.