Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company wants to reduce what it pays for Anthropic and is more focused on competing with Anthropic than with other major AI rivals. In an interview reported by Bloomberg and echoed by other outlets, Suleyman describes Anthropic as “extremely expensive,” adding that many organizations are actively looking for alternatives. He frames the comments as both competitive positioning and a business objective, indicating Microsoft intends to develop or expand in-house AI capabilities rather than rely as heavily on external providers.
The Times of India reports that Suleyman says his team is “more concerned” about Anthropic than about competitors including Google, Meta, and OpenAI. That concern is linked to Anthropic’s expansion into enterprise software and coding tools, which Microsoft views as increasingly overlapping with its own market interests. Across the reports, Microsoft is portrayed as pursuing advanced internal AI models and aiming to lower dependence on third-party model providers, particularly Anthropic, while continuing to compete across enterprise use cases.
