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Microsoft strikes deal with Musk to host Grok AI

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella during the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington, on May 19, 2025.
[AFP]

Microsoft on Monday said its cloud servers will now host Grok from Elon Musk's xAI, days after the chatbot went off the rails with talk of "white genocide" in South Africa.

Musk told an event hosted by Microsoft that his company's models "aspire to truth with minimal error," adding that "there's always going to be some mistakes that are made."

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