{"id":98552,"date":"2026-07-08T03:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/98552\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:59:10","slug":"after-thousands-of-layoffs-microsofts-cost-cutting-drive-hits-openai-and-anthropic-as-company-dumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/98552\/","title":{"rendered":"After thousands of layoffs, Microsoft\u2019s cost cutting drive hits OpenAI and Anthropic as company \u2018dumps\u2019 \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783483150_530_microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"After thousands of layoffs, Microsoft\u2019s cost cutting drive hits OpenAI and Anthropic as company \u2018dumps\u2019 \u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Microsoft\u2019s push to cut costs following thousands of layoffs has reached its premier artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships, a report has said, claiming that the tech giant is beginning to \u201cdump\u201d models from OpenAI and Anthropic inside its most popular software products, replacing them with its own internally built AI.Citing a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that tens of thousands of AI prompts within Microsoft Excel and Outlook are now being quietly handled each week by Microsoft\u2019s home-grown \u201cMAI\u201d models. Previously, these spreadsheet and applications relied on technology developed by OpenAI and Anthropic \u2013 the makers of ChatGPT and Claude, respectively.While internally handled tasks represent a relatively small portion of Microsoft\u2019s total AI footprint, the shift proves the company is making major strides in building highly competitive artificial intelligence (AI) at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman\u2019s June \u2018warning\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The move follows a clear warning issued in June by Microsoft\u2019s AI division chief, Mustafa Suleyman, who stated that the company was actively trying to reduce its financial dependence on Anthropic.Every time a user asks an AI assistant to write an email or analyse data, it consumes massive quantities of \u201ctokens\u201d \u2013 the basic unit of measurement for AI computing power. Currently, Microsoft\u2019s workplace assistant, Copilot, consumes these tokens at an extraordinary rate. While Microsoft currently enjoys steep discounts on this computing power due to its multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI, executives know that special pricing agreement won\u2019t last forever, the report said. Suleyman\u2019s team is working to ensure Microsoft isn\u2019t left at the mercy of outside AI labs&#8217; pricing models.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating the outside costs<\/p>\n<p>At its annual Build developer conference in June, Microsoft debuted seven new in-house AI models. The company claims one of its new models can match the coding capabilities of Anthropic\u2019s highly popular, prior-generation Opus 4.6 model \u2013 but at a significantly lower operational cost.\u201cWe pay a lot of money to Anthropic \u2014 so our goal is to reduce and ultimately eliminate that cost,\u201d Suleyman stated at the conference.The rollout of Microsoft\u2019s MAI models is already expanding beyond basic office work, the report noted. The home-grown tech is now available within GitHub Copilot for software developers, and Suleyman confirmed that a Microsoft-built voice transcription model will be integrated into Microsoft Teams videoconferencing and other core products in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s push to cut costs following thousands of layoffs has reached its premier artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[51377,51376,420,7829,37107,320,7828,51375,13960],"class_list":["post-98552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-ai-models-comparison","tag-anthropic-layoffs","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-mai-models","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai","tag-microsoft-ai-cost-cutting","tag-openai-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}