Microsoft is weighing a self-hosted DeepSeek model to cut Copilot Cowork's costs, a Chinese-AI move likely to draw Trump-administration scrutiny.

Microsoft will also shift to usage-based pricing for the enterprise agent.

Microsoft moves Copilot Cowork to usage-based Copilot Credits pricing and considers hosting DeepSeek V4 as a cheaper alternative to Anthropic Claude.

Don't see this going over well.