Microsoft announces adoption of Grok, an artificial intelligence tool from one of Musk's companies.

 Microsoft announced Monday that it will add Grok, a generative AI program, to Azure, its cloud computing platform for developers, following renewed controversy over the tool, created by a company owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

Grok sparked controversy last week when it mentioned the phrase "white genocide" in South Africa, an error that XAI, the company that created the model and also owns the X social media platform, attributed to "unauthorized modification."

"We strive for truth," Elon Musk said during a short interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, broadcast Monday during the tech giant's annual conference.

He added, "There will always be errors, but we strive to get to the truth and reduce the number of errors over time. I think that's very important for the safety of AI."

The sudden addition of Grok to the myriad other generative AI models available on Azure won't be good news for OpenAI, Microsoft's primary partner in this technology.

OpenAI launched the generative AI wave with its ChatGPT tool in late 2022 and remains the industry's star, particularly thanks to Microsoft's billions of dollars in investment.

Elon Musk has repeatedly attacked OpenAI on the X platform and in court, accusing it of "violating" its articles of association, which state it is a non-profit company. Musk co-founded the company in 2015 but resigned three years later due to fundamental disagreements.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke at Microsoft's conference and spoke directly with Satya Nadella to highlight the latest innovations.

Grok models will be available on Azure AI Foundry, a platform that offers hundreds of models to developers subscribing to the service, including DeepSec, Mistral, and Meta models.

Nadella emphasized the importance of the multiple options offered by Foundry.

“As developers, we care about many dimensions: cost, reliability, time, and quality,” he said. “Azure OpenAI is best in class, offering guarantees like high reliability and excellent cost controls.”

“Today, we are excited to announce that Grok, the innovative XAIC, is being added to Azure.”

Microsoft also unveiled an AI-powered assistant for engineers, capable of coding on demand and available on GitHub, the company’s software development service.

The new assistant codes autonomously, notifies the user upon completion, and appears as a coder among others within the team on the platform.

AI-based assistants capable of programming are not new, but tech giants have been promising more autonomous and efficient "AI engineers" for months.

Many observers and critics in Silicon Valley fear this will lead to significant job losses.

Microsoft recently experienced a new wave of layoffs. A source close to the matter indicated that this social media plan affected "less than 3%" of the company's workforce, or about 6,000 people.

Generative AI models are often pre-programmed by engineers to deliver certain content, avoid others, or respond in a certain tone. Grok's tone is particularly humorous.

Users considered the latest model from OpAI to be too sycophantic, and the company quickly announced it would make changes to address this.

According to screenshots, Grok referred to "white genocide" in South Africa last week in response to unrelated questions, reflecting far-right propaganda about the alleged oppression of white South Africans.

When a user asked him why he was obsessed with the topic, the chatbot replied that "his creators at XAI told him to address this."

South African-born Elon Musk has previously accused the country's leaders of "encouraging white genocide in South Africa."

In a statement, XAI cited "unauthorized editing" by Grok that led him to give answers that "violate XAI's internal policies and core values."

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