Microsoft Copilot now supports AI models from both Anthropic and OpenAI

Microsoft is now letting business users pick between OpenAI and Anthropic models inside its Copilot AI ￰0￱ started on Wednesday. It’s the first time Microsoft is giving customers direct access to Anthropic’s models in its workplace AI ￰1￱ now, Copilot was entirely run on OpenAI tech like GPT-4. Now, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio will also include Claude from ￰2￱ confirmed the update in a blog ￰3￱ company said users can now use Claude Opus 4.1 for tasks that need deeper reasoning, like the Researcher tool in ￰4￱ Studio will also support Claude Sonnet 4, which is faster and lighter. “This move advances our commitment to bring the best AI innovation from across the industry to Microsoft 365 Copilot,” said Charles Lamanna, head of business and industry ￰5￱ joins as Microsoft builds its own models Anthropic is one of the top competitors to ￰6￱ was founded by ex-OpenAI ￰7￱ company has its own AI systems trained to handle complicated ￰8￱ has also been working on its own AI ￰9￱ for now, it’s giving customers ￰10￱ can pick between OpenAI and Anthropic, depending on what works better for ￰11￱ ChatGPT launched almost three years ago, there’s been a flood of AI ￰12￱ big tech company wants to be the place where people run their models.

Microsoft, Amazon, Google — they’ve all started letting customers mix and match models from different ￰13￱ move to include Anthropic in Copilot shows Microsoft is still trying to lead that ￰14￱ has a long-term deal with ￰15￱ put in a huge investment and gave OpenAI access to its cloud ￰16￱ return, Microsoft was allowed to use OpenAI’s models in its products. That’s why Copilot tools today — the coding assistant, the workplace chatbot, even the personal assistant — all run on ￰17￱ that setup is now ￰18￱ new Claude models are built to solve hard problems, not just answer simple ￰19￱ Opus is the ￰20￱ Sonnet is smaller but ￰21￱ in Copilot Studio — where businesses make custom AI bots — will have access to ￰22￱ didn’t say whether Anthropic got any investment as part of the ￰23￱ also didn’t say what happens next in its relationship with ￰24￱ it’s clearly keeping its options ￰25￱ tools, more models, more control for users — that’s the ￰26￱ up to $30,050 in trading rewards when you join Bybit today