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Anthropic is integrating Claude AI Assistant with Microsoft 365 services so you can surface content from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails in conversations with the chatbot. It’s part of a series of updates to Claude’s chatbot creation More useful at work.
Claude will now connect to Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive to search and analyze documents without having to upload them manually. the Microsoft 365 connector Now available to all Claude Team and Enterprise plan users, but admins need to enable the integration before end users can link their accounts.
Microsoft Outlook integration with Claude allows the chatbot to access email threads and analyze communications to show relevant context in its answers. Claude will also be able to search through chat conversations in Microsoft Teams, as well as access channel discussions and meeting summaries.
Anthropic is also launching enterprise search in Claude, a new feature that makes it easier for the AI assistant to search across all company data sources. Because many companies use a variety of tools to manage HR operations, communications, and other parts of the business, data often resides in many different applications and services. “Organizational research is especially valuable for onboarding new team members, answering strategic questions such as analyzing patterns in customer feedback, and quickly identifying the right internal experts to consult on any topic,” says Anthropic.
The Claude and Microsoft 365 integration works using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, Anthropic’s open source standard for connecting AI applications to data sources and other applications. Microsoft has embraced MCP, and it promises It is widely used in Windows operating system Because it rewrites its operating system to run computers In the AI-powered computers you talk to.
Microsoft is also increasingly relying on human AI models Improve its Microsoft 365 apps. Anthropic models now help power Copilot Researcher, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, New office agent Able to produce Word and PowerPoint documents from Microsoft’s Copilot chat interface. Microsoft is turning to Anthropic just as it’s investing more in it Its own artificial intelligence models And try to avoid putting all of your AI eggs in one egg complicated OpenAI shaped basket.