By Ricardo Lezama 
In an awkward pairing, Microsoft had the CEO of Tesla appear in one of their developer conferences today. Musk announced that Microsoft and he were now pairing up to host the X/Twitter data powered ‘Grok’ Language Model. Grok has been created from harvesting, likely without much permission, from users various conversational data and headlines published on the platform X.
As part of this emerging and expanding AI race between major IT infrastructure and software providers, Microsoft, Google and other similarly structured companies compete to either host large language models or create their own large language models. The end result is that this permits to charge rent to users, while offering various other connected services. Users are also encouraged to create their own models or import their own within this infrastructure. Things become lucrative for Microsoft once companies both opt in to create services on the platform based on renting their LLM’s or customize existing LLM’s for their own uses.
Lawsuit Against OpenAi and Microsoft
Last year, Musk decided to sue both Microsoft and Microsoft’s close AI partner, OpenAI, when the latter non-profit organization decided to increase access to capital independent of Musk. With growing success, the OpenAI group operates like a for profit. Led by Sam Altman, the company began to intake large amounts of investor money and structure product offerings and releases like any other Silicone Valley behemoth.
The lawsuit is a hindrance to Open AI’s effort to monetize in the public equity markets, as the liability of having the world’s richest man sue you could weigh down prices in an initial public offering. Additionally, Open AI has decided to maintain it’s non-profit status. This makes the lawsuit’s main premise – a conflict of interest in mission statement and actions – moot. Ultimately, Musk has opted to maintain the lawsuit alive, likely because of a bitter dispute with Sam Altman over the provisioning of funds for the project, but lack of control over what was eventually the first and until this day, hottest conversational AI app.