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Microsoft's in-house family of AI models, developed internally as an alternative to relying solely on OpenAI's technology.
Microsoft's new Copilot app bills coding and agents by use, while fewer than 7% of over 450 million commercial 365 seats pay for Copilot. Usage billing lets Microsoft charge its existing Copilot customers more whether or not the unlicensed majority ever signs up.
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Ox Alpha arrived on OpenRouter free with a million-token window, and OpenRouter says the unnamed provider retains prompts and completions. Coding teams are using it anyway.
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Stratechery argues that slowing model improvement would shrink overhangs the labs' own speed created. The same piece says the safety motive behind Anthropic's pacing position is sincere, so both readings stand.
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Three rival lab CEOs backed the pacing argument within two days of the essay. The checkable part of it is access for embedded evaluators, plus an antitrust waiver from Washington that has not been granted.
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Satya Nadella used a Sunday post about superintelligence to tell firms they should be able to run their own learning loops without depending on any one model provider. Microsoft publishes the code of conduct behind its MAI models on Monday.
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