“Everybody else sells parts – we sell the whole end-to-end system”: Microsoft is reportedly asking its vendors to take on OpenAI and Anthropic

• Microsoft sees itself as cheaper and more efficient at assembling the full stack
• The company is clearly pushing its own internal models
• Claude also thought about being slower and less precise

Microsoft is reportedly teaching vendors how to compare the company’s AI offerings to competing companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Sore Bloomberg reporting, the company’s sales force is asked to emphasize benefits such as efficiency and cost benefits when using Microsoft’s offerings, which provide a much fuller picture than just the models and tools that extend to computing and other workflow tools.