- Microsoft and Anthropic unveil Copilot Cowork
- Anthropic AI platform gives Copilot the ability to dig deeper into work tasks
- The tool will be able to cover the entire Microsoft 365 platform
Microsoft has announced that its Copilot Cowork platform will now be generally available to Microsoft 365 Copilot users worldwide.
First revealed in March 2026, Cowork combines the power of Microsoft’s Copilot offering with some of the most powerful AI tools from Anthropic’s Claude Cowork platform.
The goal, the companies say, is to transform AI assistants from an interested observer into a full-fledged assistant, giving you all the tools you need to work smart.
Co-pilot Cowork
In a blog post announcing the news, Charles Lamanna, EVP, Copilot, Agents and Platform at Microsoft, noted that “more than half of Fortune 500 companies are using Copilot Cowork” after its initial preview launch.
“We were impressed with your creativity and what you all built with it,” Lamanna added, describing use cases ranging from batch editing spreadsheets, to comparing thousands of files across two product versions, to assessing risky opportunities for business teams.
“Cowork is the fastest-growing feature in the history of our Frontier program, and Cowork has one of the highest user satisfaction ratings of any Copilot or agent experience we have offered,” he said.
“We learned from what we saw, collaborated with you throughout the process, and used everything we heard to improve quality and add new features, including template choice, extensibility via plugins, and new cost management controls.”
To mark its general release, Microsoft has added a few more tools to Copilot Cowork to make the service as useful as possible.
The first is a greater choice of AI models you use: In general availability, Copilot Cowork now works on popular Anthropic models, including Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6.
In Frontier Access, customers can also access GPT 5.5, with Cowork 1 coming soon, Microsoft’s latest model removing model bias and helping to deliver enterprise-grade performance at a significantly lower cost for everyday Copilot tasks, helping organizations manage cost-sensitive workloads.
Elsewhere, Microsoft is introducing new partner plugins for Copilot Cowork, with nine partners available immediately, including Monday.com, Miro and Moodys, and eight more coming soon, including work heavyweights such as Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Canva.
Frontier users can now use Copilot Cowork to log in via a local Edge browser, expanding the range of tasks it can perform on users’ behalf.
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