India, Oct. 1 -- Microsoft recently expanded its generative AI capabilities within the Microsoft 365 Copilot suite, adding Anthropic's advanced AI models to power a new feature: the Office Agent in Copilot chat.

The integration centres on Anthropic's high-performance models, Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1. The Office Agent feature enables a "chat-first" workflow, recognising that many work tasks begin in messaging interfaces.

Users can now direct Copilot chat to generate a well-structured PowerPoint deck or a comprehensive Word document from a single, high-level instruction.

For instance, instead of creating a presentation from scratch, a user can prompt the Office Agent with a request like, " Create a deck summarising the top fiv...