Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on
16-07-2026 10:57 via thenextweb.com

Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on

Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft’s own products. The session was billed as a strategy kickoff for the fiscal year that began this month, and it leaned […]
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