You certainly couldn’t blame Microsoft if they didn’t want anything to do with Elon Musk, as the richest man in the world is currently suing the tech company and remains in conflict with founder Bill Gates, yet he made a shocking surprise appearance at the recent annual developer conference.

Elon Musk hasn’t exactly been a friendly presence towards Microsoft in recent years, as beyond being general rivals in the dog-eat-dog world of technology, the billionaire has never shied away from making his own stances clear.

While not directly connected to the company any more, Musk’s bitter back and forth with Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been all over the news, especially since Elon took on a prominent role in President Trump’s administration.

Gates has branded Musk’s politics as ‘insane s***’ and argued that he’s ‘killing children’ after the Department of Government Efficiency cut key foreign aid initiatives – although he is still open to working with him at some point in the future.

In response, Musk called Gates a ‘huge liar’, and emphasized a connection between Gates and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.

Furthermore, Musk’s interactions with Microsoft directly aren’t that much better, as he’s currently in a lengthy anti-competition legal battle with the company over their partnership with OpenAI and long-time Musk rival Sam Altman.

However, despite all of this Musk still somehow made a shocking appearance at Microsoft’s recent annual developer conference, where it was announced that the company’s cloud computing platform will now be hosting Elon’s AI chatbot Grok, as reported by AP.

Musk appeared virtually on the conference screen following the major reveal, and primarily discussed the self-professed ‘mistakes’ that Grok’s parent company xAI has made, which are likely the recent references towards ‘white genocide’ in South Africa and even holocaust denial that the AI repeatedly made to unrelated requests.

“I do wanna emphasize we have made and will make mistakes,” Musk explained, “but we aspire to correct them very quickly.”

Musk also added that “we are very much looking forward to feedback from the development community to say, what do you need, where were we wrong, how can we make it better, and have Grok be something that the development community is very excited to use and somewhere that they feel like their feedback has been heard and Grok is improving and serving their needs.”

Musk has been making a big push for Grok in recent months, especially in competition to the advancements that rivals like ChatGPT have been making, and this was especially bolstered by the recent purchase of X (formerly Twitter) by xAI, which one expert indicates is a concerning move for anyone worried about privacy.