Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has revealed that his team is more focused on beating rival AI lab Anthropic and not Google, Meta or even its close partner OpenAI. Speaking at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, Suleyman explained that Anthropic’s aggressive push into business software and coding tools poses a direct threat to Microsoft's core corporate empire when compared with consumer-centric giants.

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI.

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft is announcing series of generative AI models to try and crack a market controlled by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.