Meta and Microsoft wean employees off Claude: Anthropic has gone from partner to competitor
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Claude proved so useful inside other companies that they started spending billions on it — and are now building a replacement.
According to The Information, Microsoft, whose Claude spending was heading toward more than $1 billion a year, cut it by more than a third and lowered the monthly per-employee limit in its cloud division from $100 thousand to about $10 thousand. At Meta, the number of Claude Code users fell from about 60 thousand to 30 thousand; in a single 28-day period the company spent more than $105 million on it. Both companies are promoting their own tools.
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