{"id":1016185,"date":"2026-06-22T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016185"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:27:21","slug":"microsofts-fastest-growing-ai-market-is-the-one-america-fears-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/22\/microsofts-fastest-growing-ai-market-is-the-one-america-fears-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s fastest-growing AI market is the one America fears most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While American lawmakers warn that Chinese AI poses an existential threat to US dominance, Microsoft has quietly turned the country into a billion-dollar business, selling OpenAI&#8217;s models to the very firms Washington is wary of. ByteDance, the Beijing owner of TikTok, has been Microsoft&#8217;s single largest AI customer in recent years and is on track to spend upwards of $1 billion a year on its AI and cloud services, Bloomberg reports.The catch is what ByteDance mostly buys: OpenAI&#8217;s GPT models, piped through Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud, in a market OpenAI itself won&#8217;t go near. And it isn&#8217;t alone. Ant Group, Meituan and Tencent are also big spenders on AI through Azure, leaving Microsoft as the one company channelling America&#8217;s best models into the hands of its biggest tech rivals, distillation fears and all.<\/p>\n<p>The one company selling American AI where its makers won&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While American lawmakers warn that Chinese AI poses an existential threat to US dominance, Microsoft has quietly turned the country into a billion-dollar business, selling OpenAI&#8217;s models to the very firms Washington is wary of. ByteDance, the Beijing owner of TikTok, has been Microsoft&#8217;s single largest AI customer in recent years and is on track to spend upwards of $1 billion a year on its AI and cloud services, Bloomberg reports.The catch is what ByteDance mostly buys: OpenAI&#8217;s GPT models, piped through Microsoft&#8217;s Azure cloud, in a market OpenAI itself won&#8217;t go near. And it isn&#8217;t alone. Ant Group, Meituan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016186,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016185\/revisions\/1016186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}