Microsoft just lately expanded its generative AI capabilities throughout the Microsoft 365 Copilot suite, including Anthropic’s superior AI fashions to energy a brand new function: the Workplace Agent in Copilot chat.

The combination centres on Anthropic’s high-performance fashions, Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1. The Workplace Agent function allows a “chat-first” workflow, recognising that many work duties start in messaging interfaces.

Customers can now direct Copilot chat to generate a well-structured PowerPoint deck or a complete Phrase doc from a single, high-level instruction.

As an example, as an alternative of making a presentation from scratch, a person can immediate the Workplace Agent with a request like, “ Create a deck summarising the highest 5 developments within the athleisure clothes market.” The agent then analyses the immediate, conducts crucial analysis, and generates a totally formatted presentation, full with slide previews.

Right here, the objective is to supply ready-to-use paperwork and displays extra reliably and shortly, addressing earlier difficulties some AI instruments had in producing efficient slides.

The Workplace Agent resides throughout the normal Copilot chat, distinct from the brand new Agent Mode rolling out inside particular person Workplace purposes like Phrase and Excel. Whereas Agent Mode is presently powered by OpenAI’s newest reasoning fashions to deal with iterative, multi-step duties contained in the purposes, reminiscent of producing, checking, and refining complicated spreadsheets, the agent leverages Anthropic’s fashions to ship full paperwork from a chat window.

Microsoft provides its enterprise prospects a larger selection, permitting them to pick out the AI mannequin greatest fitted to a selected job. The Anthropic fashions, Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1, had been initially launched as choices for the M365 Copilot Researcher Agent and for creating customized AI brokers in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

The brand new Workplace Agent is presently out there to customers within the Frontier program for licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot prospects. Organisations should allow entry to the Anthropic fashions by means of the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre, a step that requires acknowledgement that the Anthropic fashions function exterior of Microsoft’s managed atmosphere and observe Anthropic’s personal phrases and circumstances.