When the co-founder of a giant tech outfit like Salesforce publicly disses a rival product, it's worth noting what they say. And Benioff certainly had some choice words about Microsoft's big AI push.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has strong opinions about Microsoft's Copilot AI, claiming it has fallen short of customer expectations and failed to deliver the promised value.

Benioff is referring to the widely disparaged animated paperclip Microsoft unveiled as part of Office 96. The "smart" digital helper was designed to assist with certain tasks, but it was viewed more as an annoyance and reviled by users. As such, Benioff's comments had a tone of mockery.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff believes Microsoft is on its way to a repeat act of creating a loathsome program meant to assist users in Copilot, the tech company’s foray into AI-powered assistance. “We all know now that Microsoft Copilot is basically the new Microsoft Clippy,

Marc Benioff is more on fire than ever. He is dominant, outspoken, demanding, but above all driven. He is pushing a lot of AI innovation and swings at competition.

During Salesforce Dreamforce 2024 in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff says Agentforce AI agents are better than Microsoft OpenAI Copilots.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently took a swipe at Microsoft’s Copilot AI, likening it to the much-maligned Clippy, Microsoft’s discontinued digital assistant from the 1990s. During an interview at Salesforce's Dreamforce event in San Francisco,