趋势解读：Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and，解读最新 AI 进展

Microsoft is weighing a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of Deepseek V4 as a cheaper model option for Copilot Cowork, Axios reports . The company is also shifting Cowork to usage-based pricing. Cowork adapts Anthropic's Claude technology , which leans heavily on agentic reasoning and burns through tokens fast. Copilot EVP Charles Lamanna told Axios that flat-rate pricing isn't sustainable because of "users who do hundreds of tasks a week," driving costs up quickly . Microsoft already made a similar move with GitHub Copilot, switching it to usage-based billing . A Chinese AI model could draw criticism, especially in the US . Microsoft stresses that Deepseek would be optional and fully hosted on Azure, keeping customer data in Microsoft's cloud. The model has been customized with safeguards against bias. A final decision is expected in the coming weeks. Ad The move fits a blog post CEO Satya Nadella published this week, arguing for an ecosystem of AI models companies can pick and tune for specific use cases and costs. Nadella previously called AI a consumption business, saying he wants " intense users and intense usage ." Ad DEC_D_Incontent-1 Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.