Meta and Microsoft cut internal use of Claude
What happened
According to The Information, Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are significantly cutting their internal use of Claude. The Decoder reported the news on 6 October 2026, saying Anthropic has thereby shifted from partner to competitor. The reports so far disclose only the move to cut internal use, with no specific scale, timeline or reason given, and no response from Meta, Microsoft or Anthropic.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 10 d ago
Timeline
Follow the reports to see the event from each side.
- The DecoderMeta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor
Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee budget in its cloud division from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta halved its Claude Code users to 30,000. Both companies are pushing their own AI tools instead.