Meta halves internal Claude Code users and Microsoft trims projected Claude spending, The Information reports

META has cut the number of employees using Anthropic's Claude Code to roughly 30,000, down from about 60,000 earlier this year, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report also said MSFT has reduced its projected internal spending on Claude, which had been expected to reach at least $1 billion, by more than a third. Neither company announced the changes.

Both companies are steering engineers toward their own tools. At Meta, the in-house MetaCode assistant has more than 30,000 internal users and Muse Code more than 6,000, according to the reporting relayed by Investing.com. The shift comes after Meta cut about 10% of its roughly 78,000 employees in spring layoffs, which also lowers the number of seats it needs.

For Anthropic, the reported cuts touch two of its most visible enterprise customers, though the two moves were described as separate decisions rather than a coordinated pullback. The figures concern employee coding tools rather than products either company sells to customers.

What to watch: whether other large technology companies follow by replacing third-party coding assistants with in-house models, and whether Anthropic addresses enterprise demand in its next funding or revenue disclosures.