Elon Musk is in a Legal fight with Microsoft But has made a friendly virtual appearance during the annual showcase of the software giant to reveal that his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will now be hosted in Microsoft data centers.
“It’s fantastic to have you during our developer conference,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Musk in a pre -recorded video conversation broadcast on Monday at the Microsoft construction conference in Seattle.
Last year, Musk continued Microsoft and his business partner near Openai in a dispute over the fundamental contributions from Musk to Openai, which Musk helped to start. Musk now directs his own AI, XAI, Grok manufacturer, a Chatgpt competitor from Openai.
Openai CEO Sam Altman also spoke with Nadella via a live video call earlier at the conference on Monday.
The Musk’s agreement means that the latest versions of the XAI GROK models will be hosted on the Azure Cloud Computing platform in Microsoft, alongside competing models from Openai and other companies, including Facebook Parent Meta Platform, AI Startups in Europe Mistral and Black Forest Labs and Chinese Company Deepsek.
The Grok partnership arrives a few days later XAI had to repair The chatbot to prevent it from repeatedly raised the South African racial policy and the subject of “white genocide” in public interactions with users of the Musk X social media platform. The company blamed the “unauthorized modification of an employee” for the unlined subject, which reflected South Africa from South Africa.
Musk did not approach last week’s controversy in his conversation with Nadella but described honesty as the “best policy” for AI security.
“We will have and make mistakes, but we aspire to correct them very quickly,” said Musk.
Nadella was interrupted by the protest against Gaza
Monday’s construction conference also became the latest Microsoft event to be interrupted by a demonstration against business work with the Israeli government. Microsoft has already dismissed employees who protested the events of the company, including its 50th anniversary party in April.
“Satya, how about showing how Microsoft kills the Palestinians?” A Protestant employee shouted in the first minutes of the Nadella introductory conference on Monday. “What if you show how Israeli war crimes are fueled by Azure?”
Nadella continued her presentation while the demonstrators were escorted. Microsoft recognized last week that he provided AI services to the Israeli army for the war in Gaza, but said that he had found no evidence to date that his Azure platform and his AI technologies had been used to target or harm people in Gaza.
Microsoft did not immediately return a request by email of comments on the demonstration on Monday.
Microsoft has a new AI coding agent
Github belonging to Microsoft also used the Seattle gathering to introduce a new AI coding “agent” to help programmers create new software.
The company already offers a CODIGE CODAGE assistant but the promise of the so-called AI agents is that they can do more work alone in the name of a user. The updated tool is supposed to work best on the “low -medium complexity” tasks in code bases that are already well tested, managing “boring tasks” while people “focus on interesting work”, according to Microsoft’s announcement.
The new tool arrives a week after Microsoft began to dismiss hundreds From its own software engineers in the Washington Puget Sound region in the world cuts of almost 3% of its total workforce, amounting to around 6,000 workers.
