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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€“] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chinese models are open weight so western data centers just run it themselves and offer them as services. I expect Chinese labs to make their models proprietary when their popularity inevitably rises.

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

I don't know that they will