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Microsoft to Pay Anthropic Over $2B Annually for Copilot
Microsoft is planning to pay Anthropic over $2 billion annually to use its Claude AI models in Copilot, a tool within Microsoft Office. This move follows Copilot's performance issues and the internal push by Charles Lamanna, Executive Vice President of Copilot, who highlighted the significant improvements in tasks such as financial automation in Excel and presentation building in PowerPoint. Copilot now includes both Claude and OpenAI models across Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, with Microsoft increasingly using OpenAI models to save costs and improve margins.