Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft executives told sales staff at an internal meeting to negatively compare rival AI products from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its own, Bloomberg reports. Executive Vice President Jay Parikh emphasized selling "the full end-to-end system," while Jacob Andreou presented Copilot as superior to Anthropic's Claude in Microsoft office apps. The strategy follows Microsoft replacing some third-party models with in-house alternatives and reflects investor pressure over AI spending.