Microsoft’s decision to add Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a clear and deliberate pivot from a single-source AI strategy to a multi-model, multi-provider approach—one designed to give enterprise customers choice, reduce vendor risk, and accelerate feature innovation...
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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Microsoft’s decision to fold Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 Copilot represents a strategic inflection point: Copilot is now explicitly being engineered as a multi‑model, workload‑aware assistant rather than the single‑vendor product it began as, a shift motivated by performance...