By Laura Hyde |
Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork, built on Anthropic’s AI model Claude, is now available via the Frontier programme.
Copilot Cowork, which has been piloted with select customers in recent weeks, has been designed to make it easier to delegate, manage and complete complex, multistep projects. American investment management company Capital Group had early access to Copilot Cowork and have reported it being valuable for everything from planning, scheduling and creating deliverables, to preparing for executive reviews.
“The new capabilities in Cowork will help us automate and scale the Copilot ecosystem,” said Barton Warner, senior vice president of enterprise technology at Capital Group. “This isn’t about generating content or answers. It’s about taking real action – connecting steps, coordinating tasks and following through across everyday workflows. Because Cowork operates on our enterprise data and within our security and risk boundaries, we can experiment, learn and scale with confidence. That allows us to move faster and focus AI in places where it actually delivers value.”
Microsoft has also unveiled new features in Researcher, which were built on multi-model intelligence. Researcher combines information from multiple sources to generate comprehensive analysis and create cited, well-reasoned responses.
The new Critique feature expands on this by using a combination of models from Frontier labs, including Anthropic and OpenAI, to separate these actions. One model will plan the task and create and initial draft, while a second model will act as an ‘expert reviewer’ to refine the final version before a report is produced. Additionally, Researcher’s new model Council allows users to compare responses from different models side by side, enabling them to see discrepancies instantly.
These new features have resulted in Researcher scoring 13.8 per cent higher on the Deep Research Accuracy, Completeness and Objectivity (DRACO) benchmark.
“All of this innovation is part of Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which marks a turning point in how AI shows up at work: intelligence that understands the context of work, and trust that allows AI to scale safely across the workforce,” said Jared Spataro, chief marketing officer for AI at work at Microsoft in a blog post. “When intelligence and trust move together, AI stops being an experiment and starts becoming how work gets done.”