Microsoft Reportedly Plans To Start Using Anthropic Models To Power Some Of Office 365's Copilot Features

Microsoft reportedly plans to statesman utilizing Anthropic's latest Claude models to powerfulness immoderate of nan Copilot features successful its Office 365 apps. In a study published Tuesday, The Information said nan tech elephantine would denote nan alteration "in nan coming weeks." Microsoft presently relies connected OpenAI's tech to powerfulness nan mostly of AI features recovered wrong of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

As an outsider looking in, Microsoft's clasp of Anthropic's models would look to awesome a deepening divided betwixt nan institution and OpenAI. Microsoft is nan AI lab's largest investor, and was integral to Sam Altman's rehiring arsenic CEO pursuing his brief ouster successful 2023. However, successful caller months reports of a growing impasse betwixt nan 2 successful negotiations complete OpenAI's scheme to restructure its for-profit division arsenic a public use corporation person bubbled up.

For its part, Microsoft denied nan move is motivated by animosity. "As we’ve said, OpenAI will proceed to beryllium our partner connected frontier models and we stay committed to our semipermanent partnership," a institution spokesperson told The Information.

Still, nan determination apt comes arsenic unwelcome news for OpenAI. The Information reports Microsoft is astatine slightest partially motivated by nan truth it believes Claude 4 Sonnet "performs amended successful subtle but important ways" than GPT-5. For example, The Information's source said Anthropic's exemplary tends to make "more aesthetically pleasing" PowerPoint presentations. Notably, that's coming from an older model, and 1 that isn't moreover Anthropic's flagship offering.

Anthropic did not instantly respond to Engadget's remark request. According to The Information, Microsoft does not scheme to complaint much for entree to Anthropic models successful Office 365, pinch Copilot pricing group to stay astatine $30 per personification per month. That's notable because nan institution will salary Amazon to entree Claude Sonnet 4 through AWS, Anthropic's superior unreality provider. As portion of its finance successful OpenAI, Microsoft tin entree nan company's models astatine nary further cost.