It’s one of the world’s largest cloud providers and software-as-a-service companies, while also holding valuable stakes in the two biggest AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. In other words, he’s pitching Microsoft as an alternative to many of the upscale services that OpenAI and Anthropic are developing for their own growth. We offer the broadest model catalog in the cloud with over 11,000 models, including the leads from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, as well as our own MAI family,” he said. We are co-designing these models with our silicon, and we are seeing 40% better performance per watt when running MAI models on Maia 200.” Sure, the Microsoft CEO says that enterprises should use the frontier models that OpenAI and Anthropic offer in their mix.