Meta and Microsoft have begun reducing employee access to Anthropic’s Claude AI as they shift toward internal coding assistants, according to an October 5 report by The Information cited in both the RS Web Solutions article and the Cyber Security News piece.
Within Microsoft’s cloud and AI division, monthly AI spending limits for employees have reportedly been cut from $100,000 to about $10,000 per person, following a revision of an earlier projection that internal Anthropic spending would exceed $1 billion annually. At Meta, the number of Claude Code users reportedly fell from roughly 60,000 earlier this year to about 30,000, with the company promoting its own MetaCode and Muse Code tools as alternatives.
Shows Microsoft’s workplace environment, relevant to the discussion of reduced monthly AI spending limits for employees in its cloud and AI division.
Depicts Meta's visual identity, supporting the point about Meta promoting its own coding assistants while reducing Claude Code user numbers.
Despite these internal cutbacks, both firms remain major external customers of Anthropic; Microsoft reports growing client spending on Claude through its enterprise platforms, and Meta still allocated over $105 million to Claude Code in a single 28‑day period, indicating that lower user counts do not necessarily translate to reduced expenditure.
Illustrates the external relationship between the tech giants and Anthropic, noting continued significant spending on Claude AI.