Oracle has partnered with Elon Musk’s xAI to offer the startup’s Grok 3 AI model through Oracle’s cloud computing platform for corporate customers. The collaboration allows businesses to access xAI’s latest AI model while maintaining their existing security protections with Oracle, expanding Oracle’s strategy of providing multiple AI models without developing its own.
What you should know: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will host Grok 3 in its data centers, giving enterprise customers access to the model that first launched in February.
- Grok 3 was designed to compete with the latest offerings from DeepSeek and OpenAI.
- The model was previously available only to paying subscribers of Musk’s X social media platform and through xAI directly.
- Corporate users can now integrate Grok 3 into their business software while keeping their data under Oracle’s security framework.
Oracle’s broader AI strategy: The company positions itself as a multi-model provider rather than developing proprietary AI technology.
- Oracle already offers models from Meta, French startup Mistral, and Cohere on its cloud service.
- “Our goal here is to make sure that we can provide a portfolio of models – we don’t have our own,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- “That’s the current strategy. We are going to be the one that offers all of them.”
Why this matters: The partnership highlights Oracle’s approach to compete in the enterprise AI market by becoming a comprehensive platform for accessing various AI models rather than building competing technology in-house.
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