New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- 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.

The Redmond based company says that the addition of Claude family of models is aimed at allowing customsers to access the best AI innovations from across the industry.

Charles Lamanna, President, Business & Industry of Microsoft's Copilot team while explaining the new move in a blogpost said, "Copilot will continue to be powered by OpenAI's latest models, and now our customers will have the flexibility to use Anthropic models too-starting in Researcher or when ...