Elon Musk's xAI models are now part of Microsoft's Azure Cloud

The partnership between Azure and xAI makes it better, and it makes the generative AI business more competitive.

  • The Grok models are now available in Azure. Along with OpenAI models, Microsoft has also made the Grok 3 and Grok 3 small models from xAI available to developers through its Azure AI Model Catalogue.
  • Even though Microsoft spent more than $13 billion on OpenAI, this move shows that the company wants to broaden its AI partnerships and depend less on OpenAI.
  • It is well known that Grok models have a "unfiltered" talking tone. This may appeal to some users, but it can also be hard to moderate.
  • Microsoft plans to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to make sure that Grok and other AI systems can work together.
  • It's tough in the cloud The AI space is getting hotter. Microsoft Azure's relationship with xAI makes it stronger against Alphabet and Amazon . This news previously appeared on Bloomberg.

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    The analysts anticipate for 2025 a record net profit a 99.96 billion USD. For this year most of the analysts expect a profit per share of 13.36 USD. Based on this the price/earnings-ratio is 34.48.

    For this year the analysts expect a dividend of 3.27 USD per share. Thus the dividend yield equals 0.71 percent. The average dividend yield of the software & services companies is a relatively high 1.69 percent.

    Based on the current number of shares Microsoft 's market capitalization equals 3423.85 billion USD.

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