The whole AI landscape is changing way too fast to keep up with. I haven’t figured out if that is a good thing or bad, but who has the time?
One thing that I’ve heard a lot from people that we’ve worked with is that their experience with Microsoft Copilot is not great. If that’s been your experience too, you might be happy to know that Claude is slowly showing up in different Microsoft applications.
It looks like Microsoft has invested a decent chunk of money into Anthropic for Claude development (and probably access to their models). It’s interestingly the same amount that they are giving to OpenAI for ChatGPT.
Claude is now available in Microsoft Foundry, their “AI app and agent factory”. Claude is also available in Excel and PowerPoint. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve seen many reviews and people report that Claude is more useful to them in Excel and PowerPoint than Copilot. Seems like a bad look for Microsoft, but who knows what their long-term plan is?
Either way, the user seems like the winner. If you like Copilot, keep using it. If you don’t like it, try Claude.
My guess is that Claude will slowly become available in more Microsoft tools but things have also become really hard to predict in the AI space.
Crazy times.