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Comment by Benard-dev | Hacker News Reader

This is not surprising. Every big lab blocks competitor tools for internal use; it is a data governance thing, not a quality statement.

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Right! it seems obvious why: Both these companies want to dogfood their own coding models and stop paying competition.

You can also read this as diminishing returns / AI isn't good enough, etc, but the simplest explanation is that they don't want to send money to Anthropic.

This, and in addition to dogfooding, incentivizing employees to be more effective with the cheaper models. A lot of problems don't need anything fancy, but it takes more brain power and engineering effort to make that work. By default humans will take the path of least resistance if it's available.

Does MS have coding models?

yes, but there's a reason nobody talks about them

This is likely the future as well. Down the road, every company will have their own internal coding models.

But Microsoft and Meta are not blocking competitor tools for internal use, they're merely trying to reduce costs and divert a fraction of use to their own technologies. Microsoft and Meta are both still spending nine figures a year on Claude, and the article does not state or imply they're even considering a complete halt.

Microsoft has full and unlimited access to OpenAI models. That was some agreement when they invested originally.

So nobody except AI labs is allowed to do "data governance"?

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