{"id":406127,"date":"2025-09-25T01:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/microsoft-looks-beyond-openai-adds-support-for-anthropics-ai-models-in-microsoft-365-copilot-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:30:31","slug":"microsoft-looks-beyond-openai-adds-support-for-anthropics-ai-models-in-microsoft-365-copilot-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/microsoft-looks-beyond-openai-adds-support-for-anthropics-ai-models-in-microsoft-365-copilot-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft looks beyond OpenAI, adds support for Anthropic’s AI models in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft has announced that it is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.2 models to Microsoft 365 Copilot alongside the OpenAI models. Meanwhile, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Researcher users will also have access to Anthropic’s AI models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bThe Redmond based company says that the addition of Claude<\/a> family of models is aimed at allowing customsers to access the best AI innovations from across the industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bCharles Lamanna, President, Business & Industry of Microsoft’s Copilot<\/a> team while explaining the new move in a blogpost said, \u201cCopilot will continue to be powered by OpenAI\u2019s latest models, and now our customers will have the flexibility to use Anthropic models too\u2014starting in Researcher or when building agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200b\u201cThe addition of Claude Sonnet 4<\/a> and Claude Opus 4.1 advances our commitment to bring the best AI innovation from across the industry to Microsoft 365 Copilot, tuned for work and tailored to your business needs.\u201d he added<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bMicrosoft’s Researcher agent will also be able to use Claude Opus 4.1 apart from OpenAI’s reasoning models. Users can click on the \u2018Try Claude\u2019 icon on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to access the Anthropic model.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bAfter opting-in to use Claude Opus 4.1, users will be able to easily switch between OpenAI and Anthropic models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bMeanwhile, Microsoft will provide Copilot Studio uses the option to \u201ceven mix which models are used for specialized tasks from Anthropic, OpenAI, or any of the models in the Azure Model Catalog.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bThe new deal between Microsoft and Anthropic comes shortly after a report from The Verge revealed that the tech giant had started favouring Claue models GitHub Copilot paid users. Reportedly, the company has been telling its own developers to use Claude Sonnet 4 in recent moths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bWhile Microsoft has been the primary backer of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the company has been slowly trying to cut its reliance on the startup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bSatya Nadella on Anthropic coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot:<\/h2>\n

\u200bMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella<\/a> while commenting about the announcement in a post on X (formerly Twitter) said, \u201cOur multi-model approach goes beyond choice. It’s all about bringing the best AI from across the industry to Copilot, tuned for work and tailored to every business.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200bNadella also hinted that the choice of Anthropic models apart from OpenAI’s could be available in more places soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has announced that it is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.2 models to Microsoft 365 Copilot alongside the OpenAI models. Meanwhile, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Researcher users will also have access to Anthropic’s AI models. \u200bThe Redmond based company says that the addition of Claude family of models is aimed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[440,12702,284,188,183,5834,8579,22732,8510,185,186,187,101,184,5792,189,150,182,190],"class_list":["post-406127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-chatgpt","tag-claude","tag-claude-ai","tag-copilot","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-nft-technology","tag-openai","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406129,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406127\/revisions\/406129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}