Microsoft, now free of the shackles that previously tied it to OpenAI, apparently has eyes for other AI models—particularly ones that are cheap. According to a report from Axios, tokenmaxxing is taking its toll on Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot, and it is looking at the possibility of using its own version of the Chinese open-source model DeepSeek to keep its costs down. Assuming Microsoft were to take this path, the company would reportedly use a modified an