Microsoft's Foundry catalog crossed 11,000+ models and put Opus 4.8 inside Excel Agent Mode.

OpenAI uses Azure / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next

Microsoft trains sales reps to talk down OpenAI, Anthropic

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GitHub Copilot supports OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension

Microsoft's MAI coding models reach Copilot and VS Code.

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Microsoft Foundry-Local: One SDK to Replace Ollama, llama.cpp, and Whisper.cpp. No Cloud Required.

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Microsoft starts pulling OpenAI and Anthropic out of its own apps

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Microsoft debuted MAI-Thinking-1, its first reasoning model built with no distillation from other labs.

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Microsoft AI ships seven in-house MAI models, including an Excel-tuned variant that matches GPT-5.4 at 10x efficiency.

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Microsoft shipped its own coding model at Build, and the platform owners are coming for the layer

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Microsoft and OpenAI Break Up Their Exclusive Deal. Everything Changes.

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