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Microsoft Slashes Internal Claude Spending by a Third

By Aaron Holmes, Jyoti Mann and Kevin McLaughlin · Oct 5, 2026 11:14am PDT · 3 comments
Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of Anthropic’s biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees’ use of Claude, a challenge for the AI firm’s efforts to sustain its explosive growth. Microsoft executives earlier this year projected that the company was on track to spend at least $1 billion on its own internal use of Anthropic’s... Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of Anthropic’s biggest corporate customers, are working to cut...
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Tokenminimizing: Meta Moves to Curb Employee AI Usage as AI Costs Reach Billions

By Jyoti Mann · Jun 12, 2026 11:57am PDT
Meta Platforms plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees’ token usage, the company told staff in a memo on Tuesday, just weeks after it pushed them to adopt AI tools in their work. The company is building an internal platform to track employee AI usage and spending in real time, set budgets... Meta Platforms plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits...
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What it Takes to Make Open-Source AI Cheaper Than OpenAI; Microsoft Goes Multimodal

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Nov 2, 2023 7:15am PDT · 3 comments
When Meta Platforms’ released its open-source Llama models earlier this year, the tech giant was praised for giving developers a free alternative to the expensive, bleeding-edge large-language models offered by proprietary LLM developers such as OpenAI. Turns out it’s not so simple.In many cases, using open-source LLMs can actually be more... When Meta Platforms’ released its open-source Llama models earlier this year, the tech giant was...
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How Meta Plans to Close the Gap with Anthropic and OpenAI in Coding

By Jyoti Mann · Aug 5, 2026 7:00am PDT
As Meta Platforms races to catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI, it’s asking thousands of engineers to use its in-house AI coding agent, MetaCode, in their day-to-day work in an effort to improve the coding capabilities of its AI models.Maher Saba, vice president of Meta’s Applied AI Engineering organization, last month asked engineers across the... As Meta Platforms races to catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI, it’s asking thousands of engineers...
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Internal Docs Show Meta Putting Limits on Claude and Codex, Fearing Distillation

By Jyoti Mann · Jun 29, 2026 6:00am PDT
As Meta Platforms tries to wean itself off expensive AI coding applications from Anthropic and OpenAI, it is confronting a difficult challenge: keeping employees from relying too much on those outside tools to build in-house replacements. Internal guidelines reviewed by The Information show Meta is drawing strict limits on how engineers in its ... As Meta Platforms tries to wean itself off expensive AI coding applications from Anthropic and...
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Meta’s Next AI Attack on OpenAI: Free Code-Generating Software

By Kevin McLaughlin, Amir Efrati and Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 17, 2023 3:58pm PDT · 1 comment
Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI, Google and others, according to two people with direct knowledge of the product. Meta’s code-generating artificial intelligence model, dubbed Code Llama, will be open-source and could... Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate...