Microsoft Gives Sellers Tips to Knock Down Anthropic, OpenAI

Microsoft is instructing its sales teams to emphasize the limitations of rival artificial intelligence tools from OpenAI and Anthropic when courting enterprise clients. By framing its own in-house models as more cost-effective and efficient, the company aims to secure a larger share of the corporate AI market. This strategy signals a shift in Microsoft's approach, as it moves to prioritize its proprietary technology despite its substantial financial stake in OpenAI.