Forbes July 1, 2025
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and xAI recently entered into a partnership through which OCI will host xAI’s Grok models for use by its enterprise customers. This partnership makes the Grok models (most notably Grok 3) available for training and inference to a data-centric customer base that can leverage Nvidia or AMD accelerators for training and inference.
This partnership adds another foundation model to OCI, which already hosts models from Cohere, Meta, Mistral and Almawave (in addition to customer-supplied custom LLMs). From xAI’s perspective, Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are hosted on Microsoft Azure in addition to OCI. The Microsoft announcement predated OCI’s partnership by about a month, when CEO Satya Nadella discussed it at the company’s Build conference in May.
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