Elon Musk has a legal fight with Microsoft, but made a friendly virtual appearance at the annual …
Elon Musk is in a legal fight with Microsoft, but made a friendly virtual appearance in the annual technological showcase of the software giant to reveal that his grok artificial intelligence chatbot is now being hosted in Microsoft’s data centers.
“It is fantastic to have you on our developer conference,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Musk in a pre -recorded video transfer that was broadcast on Microsoft’s Build Conference in Seattle on Monday.
Musk last year Microsoft and her closest business partner OpenAi sued in a dispute about the fundamental contributions of Musk to OpenAi, who helped Musk start. Musk now runs his own AI company, Xai, maker of Grok, a competitor of OpenAi’s Chatgpt.
OpenAi CEO Sam Altman also spoke earlier with Nadella via Live Video call earlier at the Monday conference.
The Musk deal means that the latest versions of Xai’s Grok models are organized on the Azure Cloud Computing platform of Microsoft, in addition to competing models from OpenAI and other companies, including Facebook-parent-metatel platforms, Europa-in Europe established AI Startups Mistral and Black Forest.
The grok partnership comes only a few days after Xai had to repair the chatbot to prevent it from repeatedly raising South African racial politics and the subject of “white genocide” in public interactions with users of Musk’s Social Media Platform X. The company blamed an “unauthorized modification” of an employee.
Musk did not respond to last week’s controversy in his chat with Nadella, but described honesty as the “best policy” for AI safety.
“We have and will make mistakes, but we strive to correct them very quickly,” said Musk.
Nadella was interrupted by protest over Gaza
Monday’s Build conference was also the latest Microsoft event that was interrupted by a protest about the work of the company with the Israeli government. Microsoft has previously fired employees who protested for corporate events, including the 50 -year anniversary party of the company in April.
“Satya, what about you showing how Microsoft kills Palestinians?” A demonstrator shouted in the first minutes of Nadella’s introductory lecture. “What about you showing how Israeli war crimes are driven by Azure?”
Nadella continued his presentation while the protesters were guided. Microsoft acknowledged last week that the AI services provided to the Israeli army for the war in Gaza, but said that it has not found any evidence that his Azure platform and AI technologies have been used to focus on or harm people.
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