"Microsoft described Researcher as a first-of-its-kind reasoning agent that can now be powered by either OpenAI's deep reasoning models or Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1. Researcher is designed to help users build detailed go-to-market strategies, analyze emerging product trends, or create comprehensive quarterly reports. It is capable of tacking complex, multistep research by reasoning across the web, trusted third-party data, and an organization's internal work content across emails, chats, meetings, and files."
""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 building agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio," Charles Lamanna, president, Business & Industry Copilot, said in a company blog post. "Claude in Researcher is rolling out today through the Frontier Program to Microsoft 365 Copilot-licensed customers who opt in. And to build agents, users can also opt in to try Claude in Copilot Studio.""
Microsoft expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot's foundation models by adding Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 alongside OpenAI models, enabling users to choose models in Researcher and when building agents in Copilot Studio. Researcher is a reasoning agent for building go-to-market strategies, analyzing product trends, and creating comprehensive reports by reasoning across the web, third-party data, and internal organizational content. Copilot Studio enables enterprises to create, orchestrate, and manage agents powered by Anthropic models for deep reasoning, workflow automation, and multi-agent tasks. Claude in Researcher is rolling out via the Frontier Program to opted-in Microsoft 365 Copilot licensees. AWS-hosted Claude may introduce latency, egress costs, and data sovereignty concerns, prompting CIOs to implement model-aware routing and monitoring frameworks.
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