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Kevin Okemwa

“MACROHARD,” Elon Musk’s Microsoft AI clone, will be profoundly impactful at an immense scale — without direct hardware development, "much like Apple"

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L) is silhouetted as a pre-recorded interview with Elon Musk is played after announcing that Grok AI, by Musk's artificial intelligence start up xAI, will be available on Microsoft's Foundry Models, during the Microsoft Build conference opening keynote in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) .

In August, billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that through xAI, he would create a Microsoft clone called Macrohard, focused solely on AI software development."It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real!” Musk admitted.

According to Elon Musk:

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