- Microsoft Copilot has access to the Claude of Anthropic models
- They will be hosted on AWS and accessible via an API
- Office applications could soon get Claude models too
Microsoft added Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 of Anthropic to the selection available for co -pilot users, marking a major change because it exclusively pivots Openai models.
Anthropic models will be available in two areas at the start – a new button `Try Claude ” appears in the researcher’s agent’s experience, and will also be available in Copilot Studio, where users can opt for Claude models to help build personalized AI agents.
The president of the business and industry co -pilot, Charles Lamanna, announced the change in a blog article, noting “Microsoft’s commitment to bring the best IA innovation in all industry” to Copilot.
Microsoft now offers anthropo models for Copilot
The Claude models have started to move to users of the Frontier program, users of Copilot and Copilot studio Microsoft 365 can oppose, but there is a key difference between anthropogenic and Openai offers.
Anthropic models will not be hosted on Azure, but they will be rather accessible via an API and hosted on the AWS infrastructure.
Although it marks a change for models of consumers and companies within the Microsoft ecosystem, developers have already had access to other models, and indeed Github Copilot in VS Code recently started to promote Claude Sonnet 4 on OPENAI models.
With Claude outperforming the Openai models in Excel and PowerPoint tasks, this could be a question of time before the alternatives start to become available in the productivity suite of Microsoft.
“It’s just the start,” said Lamanna. “And stay listening: anthropogenic models will bring even more powerful experiences to Microsoft 365 Copilot.”
All this occurs after Openai and Microsoft have separated. Once exclusive partners, Openai has now registered with Google Cloud and others for Compute, so it was natural that Microsoft also begins to use other AI models.
