Microsoft Turns On OpenAI And Anthropic As AI Alliance Frays

For a decade, Microsoft was OpenAI's landlord, bank and shopfront. It now wants to be its rival.

At an internal meeting on Tuesday, executives told the company's sales organisation to start negatively comparing AI products from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic against Microsoft's own, pitching the efficiency and lower cost of its in-house models, according to people familiar with the session . The meeting, billed as a strategy session for fiscal year 2027, which began on 1 July, produced two quotes that will follow Microsoft around for some time.

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