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.

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Microsoft unveils new AI models to rival Anthropic. Mustafa Suleyman says firm is "less concerned" about Google, Meta and OpenAI.

“We have to prove that we can do everything that we need to from the ground up,” said AI chief Mustafa Suleyman.

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…

Mustafa Suleyman called Anthropic "extremely expensive" and unveiled seven in-house Microsoft AI models at Build to compete on price.