Microsoft is now reportedly looking to reduce its reliance on OpenAI's artificial intelligence offerings to power its products, and is looking to add AI models developed by other parties to power its CoPilot offerings. In addition to reducing dependency, this move is also seen as an effort to reduce costs by Microsoft.
For your information, Microsoft was one of OpenAI's early investors. It was also the first to offer GPT-4 through CoPilot. However, recently, the artificial intelligence arena has been seen to focus more on reasoning features and others.
For Microsoft itself, it is unknown how much demand and use CoPilot will have among its users - especially enterprise users. Microsoft is ready to develop its own model, called Phi-4, and is looking at several other methods to ensure that CoPilot continues to work quickly and more efficiently.
Today, Microsoft's GitHub is ready to integrate several variations of models under its offerings, including those from Anthropic and Google. Perhaps we will see Microsoft implementing a more or less similar method moving forward, while giving users more choice.