{"id":53706,"date":"2025-09-09T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53706\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:44:07","slug":"microsoft-to-lessen-reliance-on-openai-by-buying-ai-from-rival-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53706\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to lessen reliance on OpenAI by buying AI from rival Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic\u2019s AI in Office 365 apps, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/microsoft-buy-ai-anthropic-shift-openai\" target=\"_blank\">The Information<\/a> reports, citing two sources. The move means that Anthropic\u2019s tech will help power new features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint alongside OpenAI\u2019s, marking the end of Microsoft\u2019s previous reliance solely on the ChatGPT-maker for its productivity suite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft\u2019s move to diversify its AI partnerships comes amid a growing rift with OpenAI, which has pursued its own infrastructure projects as well as a and a potential LinkedIn competitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft\u2019s Anthropic deal also comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/29\/microsoft-in-talks-to-maintain-access-to-openais-tech-beyond-agi-milestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the company negotiates a new deal with OpenAI <\/a>to secure access to its AI models after a pending for-profit restructuring. But The Information says the move isn\u2019t a negotiating tactic. Leaders at Microsoft believe Anthropic\u2019s latest models \u2013 Claude Sonnet 4, specifically \u2013 perform better than OpenAI\u2019s in certain functions, like creating aesthetically pleasing PowerPoint presentations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, OpenAI is also seeking to step out from under Microsoft\u2019s influence. Last week, OpenAI launched a<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/04\/openai-announces-ai-powered-hiring-platform-to-take-on-linkedin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> jobs platform<\/a> to take on Microsoft\u2019s LinkedIn; and The Financial Times reported that OpenAI is set to begin <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e8cc6d99-d06e-4e9b-a54f-29317fa68d6f\" target=\"_blank\">mass production<\/a> on its first AI chips in partnership with Broadcom in 2026. That means it will be able to potentially run training and inference on hardware it controls, rather than being dependent on Microsoft\u2019s Azure setup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to Microsoft and Anthropic for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic\u2019s AI in Office 365 apps, The Information reports, citing two sources. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,6006,289,290,18,19,17,305,39137,307,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-53706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-microsoft","16":"tag-office-365","17":"tag-openai","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}