By Jordan Novet
Publication Date: 2026-08-05 18:31:00
Jay Parikh, executive vice president of CoreAI at Microsoft, speaks at a Siemens news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2026.
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Microsoft is telling developers working on AI coding projects to rely on OpenAI’s top-tier model over rival products as part of an effort to maximize efficiency.
“Internally, shifting more workloads to OpenAI models helps us get greater value from our token investment,” Jay Parikh, executive vice president of Microsoft’s CoreAI engineering group, wrote this week in a memo to employees that was viewed by CNBC. Tokens measure the scale of AI processing, with one token equal to about three-quarters of a word.
While Microsoft has built its own artificial intelligence programming model and gives cloud customers access to over 11,000 models, including from Anthropic, the company wants staffers to take advantage of valuable intellectual property rights that come from the software giant’s early…
