Microsoft has quietly recast Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor productivity assistant into a deliberate multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4 as selectable engines in Copilot’s Researcher tool and Copilot Studio, a change that gives...
Microsoft quietly turned Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor assistant into a multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable back‑ends in Copilot’s Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, while making clear that OpenAI models will...
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Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Copilot is no longer a single‑vendor show: starting today the company is adding Anthropic’s Claude family — notably Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends inside Copilot, giving organizations the ability to route specific Copilot workloads to...
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