{"text":[[{"start":10.29,"text":"Microsoft is integrating Anthropic’s models into an upgraded version of its suite of workplace tools as it moves to reduce its dependence on OpenAI for its AI products. "}],[{"start":23.93,"text":"The tech giant on Monday said that it would embed Anthropic’s Cowork, a user-friendly version of the group’s popular coding platform Claude Code, into its Microsoft “Copilot” virtual assistant."}],[{"start":38.32,"text":"Anthropic’s Claude will also be available in Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot alongside OpenAI’s most advanced models. "}],[{"start":47.519999999999996,"text":"“We’re excited about the things we can do with Anthropic,” Judson Althoff, chief executive of commercial at Microsoft, told the FT. “We are increasingly working [with them] across organisations from engineering through to go-to-market.” "}],[{"start":64.21,"text":"Microsoft’s deepening partnership with Anthropic comes after it agreed to invest up to $5bn in the start-up as part of a $30bn computing deal disclosed in November. "}],[{"start":77.00999999999999,"text":"Microsoft said that Cowork would enable customers to use Anthropic’s AI for tasks such as building presentations, gathering financial data, emailing team members and coordinating teams’ diaries for meetings. "}],[{"start":90.96,"text":"The move to integrate Anthropic products across a wide spread of Microsoft services further loosens OpenAI’s grip over the software giant’s AI services, which have been underpinned by its models for several years. "}],[{"start":105.63999999999999,"text":"Executives at the Redmond, Washington-based software group have been seeking to reduce the group’s reliance on the $730bn ChatGPT maker. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said last month the group was pursuing “true self-sufficiency” by also building its own set of powerful models. "}],[{"start":126.87999999999998,"text":"Microsoft remains a major shareholder in OpenAI, holding a 27 per cent stake in the model maker, having invested nearly $14bn since 2019. "}],[{"start":140.61999999999998,"text":"OpenAI last week reached a deal with Microsoft rival Amazon as part of its latest funding round that will see the start-up purchase vast amounts of data centre capacity from the Seattle-based group. The two companies will also partner to create a new service to help Amazon Web Services customers build AI agents and applications. "}],[{"start":163.55999999999997,"text":"Microsoft has in the past month sought to assure investors about its relationship with OpenAI amid shifts in the market for workplace tools and a surge in its data centre spending. Shares in the group are down more than 13 per cent so far this year. "}],[{"start":182.59999999999997,"text":"Anthropic released Cowork in January, promising customers the ability to use its Claude Code tool without prior coding experience. The group went further last month by launching “plug-ins” for the tool that could be used across sectors such as law, sales and customer service. "}],[{"start":202.34999999999997,"text":"Those releases rattled public markets leading to widespread sell-offs in a range of industries — including software, insurance and financial services — as Wall Street reacted to the threat from AI to broad swaths of white-collar work. "}],[{"start":218.33999999999997,"text":"“The power of these [models and tools] being infused into a core platform has real durability,” Althoff said. “The idea that AI is going to eat SaaS or all information work . . . we [just] don’t think that’s [the case].” "}],[{"start":234.58999999999997,"text":"The Copilot Cowork service will be made available this month to a limited set of customers before it becomes generally available later this year. "}],[{"start":253.76999999999995,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1773111889_8577.mp3"}