By Rafe Rosner-Uddin
Publication Date: 2026-03-09 13:00:00
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Microsoft is integrating Anthropic’s models into an upgraded version of its suite of workplace tools as it moves to reduce its dependence on OpenAI for its AI products.
The tech giant on Monday said that it would embed Anthropic’s Cowork, a user-friendly version of the group’s popular coding platform Claude Code, into its Microsoft “Copilot” virtual assistant.
Anthropic’s Claude will also be available in Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot alongside OpenAI’s most advanced models.
“We’re excited about the things we can do with Anthropic,” Judson Althoff, chief executive of commercial at Microsoft, told the FT. “We are increasingly working [with them] across organisations from engineering through to go-to-market.”
Microsoft’s deepening partnership with Anthropic comes after it agreed to invest up to $5bn in the start-up as part of a $30bn…
