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Microsoft is replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook to cut soaring AI costs.

Heavy AI users can cost up to $14,000 on a $200 subscription, forcing companies to subsidize usage and seek cheaper alternatives.

Microsoft's in-house models perform significantly worse than premium rivals, closer to open-source options like DeepSeek than Anthropic's best models.

Businesses are switching to Chinese AI providers charging 18 cents per million tokens versus $4 for Western models, reshaping the industry.

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[โ€“] Runcible@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

models perform significantly worse

What a frustratingly unqualified statement. I can totally admit that I don't know how to correctly interpret this but the comparisons I saw showed DeepSeek as only a few percentage points off the Anthropic benchmarks at the time, could be a big deal, could be imperceptible, I have no idea.

edit: quote is from summary, not the comment

[โ€“] Tabitha@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

yeah like OpenAI/Claude has superior tech but DeepSeek is probably already overkill for 99+% of real world LLM calls.