Microsoft Wants Sales Team to Push Its Own AI Models Instead of Rivals OpenAI, Google and Anthropic: Repo

Microsoft Corp.

(NASDAQ:MSFT) has reportedly instructed its sales team on Tuesday to position in-house AI models above rival offerings from OpenAI, Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google and Anthropic, as part of a fiscal 2027 strategy session.

Executive Vice President Jay Parikh told staff, "Everyone else is selling parts — we're selling the full end-to-end system," according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday.

Copilot vs.

Claude Comparison Raises Eyebrows According to the report, Copilot chief Jacob Andreou compared Copilot with Anthropic's Claude, saying it was slower, less accurate and did not have strong security integrations across Microsoft's Office apps.