Microsoft Adds Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 to Office 365, Diversifying AI Supply

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Microsoft will integrate Anthropic’s AI (Claude Sonnet 4) into Office 365 — Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint — to reduce its reliance on OpenAI. The deal reflects a push to diversify AI suppliers as OpenAI pursues more independence (new hiring tools and its own chips). Anthropic’s models reportedly outperform in some tasks, like creating polished PowerPoint slides.

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