ai cost optimization

The ai cost optimization tag covers Microsoft’s effort to reduce the operating cost of AI in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Recent coverage focuses on Copilot routing prompts from Excel and Outlook through Microsoft’s own MAI models, marking a production-scale shift in how AI workloads are handled. The change does not end Microsoft’s relationships with OpenAI or Anthropic; instead, it reflects a strategy of treating frontier models as replaceable infrastructure. The tagged discussions examine how Microsoft can select models based on capability, cost, and controllability while expanding AI across office applications, with Copilot increasingly serving as the layer that manages those model choices.