by Raphael Dudler | Jul 8, 2026 | microsoft ai
Bloomberg reported on July 7 that Microsoft has begun routing tens of thousands of weekly Excel and Outlook AI prompts away from OpenAI and Anthropic to its own in-house MAI models, to reduce costs. It is not a clean partner break — frontier tasks still route out, and Microsoft declined to comment — but the direction is unmistakable: the distributor is demoting the labs from default engine to premium option. For a Europe whose offices run on Microsoft 365, the model behind your daily work is now being decided in Redmond. gafam.ai reads why that matters.
by Raphael Dudler | Jun 2, 2026 | microsoft ai
Microsoft Build 2026 opens today in San Francisco — the day after GitHub Copilot switched to consumption pricing and the week before Apple’s WWDC. Satya Nadella’s keynote at 18:30 CET is expected to unveil Microsoft’s first reasoning-focused AI model, updates to Agent 365 and GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry developments and a Copilot super app that consolidates multiple AI assistants. gafam.ai covers Build 2026 live — from a European perspective.
by Raphael Dudler | May 23, 2026 | microsoft ai
Microsoft invested $13 billion in OpenAI and built Copilot on GPT models. Now it is building its own. The MAI Superintelligence team — led by Mustafa Suleyman — has released MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2, all priced below Google and OpenAI equivalents. Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing changes July 1, 2026. Global AI adoption reaches 17.8% of working age population. Microsoft is not reducing its OpenAI relationship. It is building an exit ramp — quietly, deliberately, and faster than anyone expected.
