Reuters news report claimsMicrosoft is considering adding artificial intelligence models provided by companies other than OpenAI to the Microsoft 365 Copilot service, including the small language model Phi-4 created by Microsoft, to reduce the cost of using OpenAI services.
However, Microsoft later responded that the cutting-edge models it will adopt will still be primarily provided by OpenAI, but it also confirmed that it will introduce artificial intelligence models provided by other companies into its Copilot service.
Microsoft has previously invested heavily in OpenAI and pledged to use OpenAI-provided AI models in its services, while also investing in the development of large-scale natural language models. The rumored addition of AI models from companies other than OpenAI to the Microsoft 365 Copilot service will not only further reduce reliance on OpenAI and the cost of using OpenAI-provided AI models, but also potentially attract more users by adding more AI models.
Judging from Microsoft's current development pace, it is clear that it hopes to meet the needs of more users by combining internal and external artificial intelligence models, attract more people to use its services by adjusting usage prices, and maintain its leading position in the development of artificial intelligence technology, thereby competing with public cloud service providers such as AWS and Google Cloud.
