Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less Microsoft depends on expensive OpenAI and Anthropic models. The company is also swapping external models in products like Copilot for its in-house MAI family, which performs significantly worse in independent benchmarks.<br /> The article Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
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