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Kevin Okemwa

Microsoft ousts Salesforce CEO's "borderline obsession with Copilot" — Marc Benioff's lethal AI jabs are "all about marketing," and "has no idea what he's talking about"

Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc. speaks during a keynote.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been hitting the headlines over the past few months because of his sentiments toward Microsoft's AI efforts. As you may already know, the AI bubble is the new craze in the tech industry that every major tech corporation is racing to adopt and integrate across its services. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has been the talk of the town after unveiling its V3-powered AI model, R1, which, according to benchmarks, surpassed OpenAI o1's reasoning capabilities across math, science, and coding at a fraction of the development cost for proprietary models.

Microsoft Chief Communication Officer Frank X. Shaw recently addressed Benioff's myriad of comments aimed at Microsoft's AI and Copilot efforts on LinkedIn.

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