Anthropic connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive

Anthropic is integrating its Claude AI adjunct with Microsoft 365 services truthful it tin aboveground contented from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails successful conversations with the chatbot. It’s portion of a bid of updates to Claude to marque the chatbot more utile astatine work.

Claude volition present link with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive to hunt and analyse documents without you needing to upload them manually. The Microsoft 365 connector is disposable present for each Claude Team and Enterprise program users, but administrators request to alteration the integration earlier extremity users tin link up their accounts.

The Microsoft Outlook integration with Claude lets the chatbot entree email threads and analyse communications to aboveground applicable discourse successful its answers. Claude volition besides beryllium capable to hunt done chat conversations successful Microsoft Teams, arsenic good arsenic entree transmission discussions and gathering summaries.

Anthropic is besides launching endeavor hunt successful Claude, a caller diagnostic that makes it easier for the AI adjunct to hunt crossed each of a company’s information sources. As galore businesses usage a assortment of tools to negociate HR processes, communications, and different parts of a business, information is often successful galore antithetic apps and services. “Enterprise hunt is peculiarly invaluable for onboarding caller squad members, answering strategical questions similar analyzing patterns successful lawsuit feedback, and rapidly identifying the close interior experts to consult connected immoderate topic,” says Anthropic.

The Claude and Microsoft 365 integration works by utilizing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, Anthropic’s open-source modular for connecting AI applications to different information sources and apps. Microsoft has been embracing MCP, promising to use it wide successful Windows arsenic it rewrites its operating strategy to crook computers into AI PCs that you speech to.

Microsoft has besides been progressively relying connected Anthropic AI models to improve its Microsoft 365 apps. Anthropic’s models are present helping powerfulness Copilot Researcher, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, and a new Office Agent that is capable to nutrient Word and PowerPoint documents from Microsoft’s ain Copilot chat interface. Microsoft is cozying up to Anthropic conscionable arsenic it’s investing much successful its ain AI models and trying to debar putting each of its AI eggs successful 1 complicated OpenAI-shaped basket.