Microsoft's new Office chief pushed to use Anthropic models to fix Copilot
The Information reports that in the summer of 2025 Microsoft was fielding customer complaints that its AI assistant Copilot was buggy and not good enough at automating work in Excel or PowerPoint. Charles Lamanna, then a Microsoft president, proposed to CEO Satya Nadella that the company consider paying for AI models from Anthropic to make Copilot work better, saying the idea was “heresy” at the time. According to the report, Lamanna is now Microsoft's new Office chief and won over Nadella by fixing Copilot.
It suggests Microsoft may no longer rely solely on OpenAI models for Copilot, and a more multi-vendor model strategy could reshape competition in AI assistants.
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