Salesforce’s boss doesn’t have a good word to say about Microsoft’s AI assistants, saying the technology is basically no better than Clippy 25 years ago.

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce CRM, took to social media on Tuesday to criticize Microsoft Corp MSFT for rebranding its Copilot as “agents.”

In his most recent tirade against Microsoft’s AI, Benioff linked to an article covering his comments during a podcast interview in which he expanded on his Copilot criticism. In

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Benioff first compared Copilot to Clippy at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference last month and doubled down on the comment this week.

Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, has slammed Bill Gates’ Microsoft on its latest announcement of rebranding Copilot as an AI “agent.” On Monday, October 21, the tech giant made it public that next month,

Salesforce has also touted the potential of AI agents, tools that some analysts say could provide companies with an easier path to monetizing the billions of dollars they are pouring into AI.

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