SAN FRANCISCO, June 17 (Reuters) - Oracle said

on Tuesday that its cloud computing division is working with

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm xAI to offer the

startup's latest AI model to business customers.

Grok 3, as the model is called, first came out February and

aimed to rival the latest offerings from DeepSeek and OpenAI.

Musk made the model available to paying subscribers of his X

social media platform, as well as through xAI itself.

Oracle will now offer Grok 3 from its data centers to

corporate users who want to use the model but need their data to

remain under their existing security protections with Oracle,

Karan Batta, senior vice president at Oracle Cloud

Infrastructure, told Reuters on Monday.

Oracle also offers models from Meta, French startup Mistral

and Cohere on the service, part of its overall strategy of

providing versions of popular models in a way that businesses

can integrate into corporate software.

"Our goal here is to make sure that we can provide a

portfolio of models - we don't have our own," Batta said.

"That's the current strategy. We are going to be the one that

offers all of them."

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by

Mrigank Dhaniwala)