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AI is built directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook with no separate tab or copy pasting A genuinely capable free tier exists with no Microsoft 365 subscription required at all Business tier answers are grounded in your organization's actual emails, files, and Teams chats via Microsoft Graph Prompts and responses are never used to train foundation models for organizational accounts Copilot inherits your existing Microsoft 365 permissions rather than granting tenant wide visibility Model choice now includes third party frontier models including Anthropic's Claude alongside OpenAI +2 more Less

GPT-5.6 reasoning models handle multi-step business tasks without a second tool Projects keep client files, instructions, and chat history in one organized place Deep Research runs genuine multi-source, cited reports Custom GPTs allow you to build and reuse specialized assistants File uploads, data analysis, and vision are included on all paid tiers +1 more Less

Writing output needs less editing than any direct competitor at this price, especially on long articles and reports. Reads documents spanning hundreds of thousands of words in one pass, which removes the need to chop contracts or long reports into pieces before uploading. Projects saves your business context permanently, so you add your company background once and Claude carries it into every new conversation automatically. Claude Code writes fully functional code from a plain-language description, and developer adoption is real enough that it's become one of Anthropic's biggest revenue drivers. The free plan is generous enough for a genuine trial run, not a one-day marketing gimmick. +1 more Less