Microsoft on Monday announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, bringing its controversial Grok models to the company’s cloud platform Azure. The news came during the kickoff of Microsoft’s Build developer conference,

Microsoft has partnered with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, to bring its Grok AI models to the Azure cloud platform, despite recent criticism over the chatbot’s politically charged and racially controversial outputs.

In a move that could redefine its AI alliances, Microsoft has added Elon Musk’s Grok to Azure AI Foundry—making the controversial xAI model available to developers and enterprises through the same platform that powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT.