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Microsoft's Researcher agent can now be powered by Claude Opus 4.1.
Anthropic's models are also now available in Copilot Studio.
Microsoft has been distancing itself from its dependence on OpenAI.
Microsoft is continuing to invest in its new partnership with Anthropic, while distancing itself further from OpenAI.
On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that two of Anthropic's frontier models, Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1, were now available through its Copilot AI assistant.
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"Copilot will continue to be powered by OpenAI's latest models, and now our customers will have the flexibility to use Anthropic models too," Charles Lamanna, president of Copilot's business and industry division at Microsoft, wrote in a company blog post.
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