Microsoft Undercuts OpenAI 58% With Model on Alibaba's Qwen
Microsoft Undercuts OpenAI 58% With Model on Alibaba's Qwen Microsoft has just picked a fight with its closest partner — and armed itself with a Chinese rival's technology. On Friday, the company launched Decision-1, a model that does exactly what OpenAI's brand-new GPT-6 Luna Decisions does, costs 58% less, and is built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5. If you were waiting for proof that the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership has quietly turned into a rivalry, here it is: priced in cents, benchmarked in public, and impossible to misunderstand. Decision-1 is a decision model, not a chatbot. You hand it a piece of text and a fixed list of options — yes/no, multiple choice, a rating scale — and it returns a calibrated probability for each option in a single structured API call. No prose, no explanations, no chat. The output is JSON that software can act on immediately: above a confidence threshold the ticket routes itself, below it the case goes to a human. Microsoft is pitching it as t...