ByteDance is on track to spend $1bn a year with Microsoft, mostly on OpenAI models, in a market OpenAI and Anthropic refuse to serve directly.

Microsoft integrates DeepSeek's AI models into Azure and tests them for Copilot, even as partners OpenAI and Anthropic warn about Chinese model

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