Tech Firms Mark Down AI Products to Compete With OpenAI and Anthropic

With their customers worn down by pricing shifts, software/cloud companies including Amazon , Microsoft and Figma are reportedly offering artificial intelligence (AI) discounts. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Sept. 22) by The Information, which said these markdowns are happening as customers are growing more selective about the AI tools they purchased after increasing spending on products like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex and slashing other costs to justify the expanded budg