Source: SiliconANGLE
Microsoft's shift from licensing OpenAI and Anthropic models to deploying its own defends margins by reducing dependency on external model vendors. The move directly threatens the unit economics of pure-play model companies reliant on enterprise licensing revenue. It signals that scale—Microsoft's installed base and cloud infrastructure—now matters more than frontier model capabilities for many commercial applications. Cloud providers are becoming their own AI suppliers, collapsing what was briefly a thriving independent model layer.