Earlier this year, Microsoft executives predicted that the company's internal annual spending on Anthropic technology would reach at least $1 billion, according to two people familiar with the spending. One of the sources said that since then, Microsoft has asked employees to reduce their use of Claude to save costs and make more use of Microsoft's self-developed AI tools, and the related budget has been cut by more than one-third. According to people directly familiar with the matter, executives such as Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft's Azure cloud business, and Jay Parrick, head of the developer tools department, require employees to carefully use the model in code development scenarios, and urge all stakeholders to monitor employee consumption, giving priority to non-Anthropic models. A current Microsoft employee said executives can now view employees' daily AI consumption, as well as specific models employees invoke on GitHub Copilot. Recently, Microsoft further lowered the overall AI usage quota for employees. For example, the Cloud and AI Division, which has more than 60,000 employees, previously used AI models worth $100,000 per month per employee. According to people familiar with the matter, the cloud department recently cut individual monthly budgets to about 10,000 US dollars in most scenarios. Current employees said that budget cuts have caused some engineers to be dissatisfied and complain that the model is no longer free to use.

Earlier this year, Microsoft executives predicted that the company's internal annual spending on Anthropic technology would reach at least $1 billion, according to two people familiar with the spending. One of the sources said that since then, Microsoft has asked employees to reduce their use of Claude to save costs and make more use of Microsoft's self-developed AI tools, and the related budget has been cut by more than one-third. People directly familiar with the matter said that executives such as Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft's Azure cloud business, and Jay Parrick, head of the developer tools department, requested employees to use the model carefully in code development scenarios, and urged all stakeholders to monitor employee consumption, giving priority to non-Anthropic models. A current Microsoft employee said executives can now view employees' daily AI consumption, as well as specific models employees invoke on GitHub Copilot. Recently, Microsoft further lowered the overall AI usage quota for employees. For example, the Cloud and AI Division, which has more than 60,000 employees, previously used AI models worth $100,000 per month per employee. According to people familiar with the matter, the cloud department recently cut individual monthly budgets to about 10,000 US dollars in most scenarios. Current employees said that budget cuts have caused some engineers to be dissatisfied and complain that the model is no longer free to use.