"Microsoft is continuing to invest in its new partnership with Anthropic, while distancing itself further from OpenAI. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that two of Anthropic's frontier models, Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1, were now available through its Copilot AI assistant. Also: Microsoft's new Windows AI Labs lets you try experimental features first - how to opt-in "Copilot will continue to be powered by OpenAI's latest models, and now our customers will have the flexibility to use Anthropic models too,""
"Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers will now have the option to choose between OpenAI's reasoning models and Claude Opus 4.1 when using Microsoft's Researcher, an AI agent within Copilot designed to handle complex, multistep tasks. Also: Microsoft Copilot is taking over Teams. Here's how AI will shape your daily workflow Users will see a "Try Claude" button in the top-right corner of Copilot when using Researcher. Selecting it will activate Opus 4.1 instead of OpenAI's models, which the system uses by default."
Microsoft added Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1 to the Copilot ecosystem and Copilot Studio. Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers can opt to run Researcher tasks with Opus 4.1 via a visible "Try Claude" button. Copilot Studio enables customers to design custom agents and mix models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other Azure-hosted providers. Custom agents default to OpenAI's GPT-4o, but customers can select alternative OpenAI models or the newly available Claude models. Microsoft also provides Windows AI Labs for testing experimental features. Microsoft continues to expand Anthropic integration while offering more model-choice flexibility to customers.
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