Jay Parikh, Microsoft executive vice president and head of the company’s CoreAI engineering division, speaks at Build 2025 in Seattle, with the Anthropic

Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI.

Microsoft started off the event by introducing a number of AI-powered features designed to enhance the software development experience.

Microsoft and xAI are coming together for their first major partnership. Announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the company is including xAI’s Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini on the list of models available through Azure AI Foundry.

Sora is coming to Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, giving developers access to text-to-video tools inside a new Video Playground.

“These models will have all the service level agreements (SLAs) Azure customers expect from any Microsoft product,” says Microsoft. The Grok AI models will be hosted and billed directly by Microsoft, and offered to its own product teams and customers through its Azure AI Foundry service.

In addition, Windows AI Foundry will also support the large number of developers who are building their own LLMs. It said Windows ML will act as the built-in AI inference runtime to streamline model deployment across every CPU, GPU and NPU.

In the next 2-5 years, most firms will have humans and AI collaborating To better secure the new virtual workforce, Microsoft introduced Entra Agent ID It is based on the Zero Trust model Microsoft just introduced Entra Agent ID,