Meta halves Claude Code users to about 30,000 as Microsoft cuts per-employee AI spend cap from $100,000 to around $10,000 ahead of Anthropic IPO
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Meta and Microsoft are tightening internal spend on Anthropic's Claude (Meta users halved; Microsoft per-employee caps cut ~90%), signaling enterprise AI budgets are shifting from open-ended experimentation to cost control. With Anthropic preparing an IPO and customer concentration already high, reduced discretionary usage raises scrutiny on revenue durability and margin pressure from compute costs, even if external customer usage via Microsoft products partly offsets.
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Meta has reduced the number of employees using Anthropic’s Claude Code to roughly 30,000 from about 60,000, while Microsoft has lowered its monthly per-employee cap for AI model spending from $100,000 to around $10,000. Microsoft executives had earlier projected the company was on track to spend at least $1 billion annually on internal use of Anthropic technology, but that estimate has since fallen by more than a third. Anthropic is preparing for an IPO that could value it at more than $2 trillion, and its customer concentration is drawing attention after a draft prospectus showed two unnamed customers generated 24% of its 2025 revenue, Reuters reported.
