American tech giant Microsoft aims to reduce its dependence on OpenAI, increase performance and reduce operational costs by integrating internal and external artificial intelligence (AI) models into its new Microsoft 365 Copilot feature. Currently, Microsoft is contracted with OpenAI to train its AI models, and when they launched 365 Copilot in March 2023, they had praised OpenAI for its early success.
According to a report by Reuters, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is closely monitoring the implementation of the strategy. Microsoft is now training the internal models of smaller languages, including Phi-4, and adapting open-weight models for the efficiency and affordability of its AI assistant. Other Microsoft divisions have also diversified their AI sources.
GitHub, acquired by Microsoft in 2018, began integrating models from Anthropic and Google in October, complementing OpenAI’s…
