Microsoft folds in Anthropic
Microsoft has integrated Anthropic technology into Copilot, rolling out a new 'Copilot Cowork' orchestration layer that treats workflows as autonomous agent tasks rather than simple assistant queries reported. At the same time Azure validated NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72 superchip — claiming 3.6 exaflops and the capacity to host far larger, memory‑hungry agent workloads reported.
Copilot Cowork is rolling out in a limited Research Preview now, with Microsoft scheduling broader access through its Frontier program in late March 2026. microsoft.com Microsoft describes Copilot as “model‑diverse” and will route work to the model best suited for each task, explicitly calling out Anthropic’s Claude as a partner in Wave 3 agentic experiences. microsoft.com Anthropic models had already been added to Microsoft Copilot Studio on January 6, 2026, where Anthropic is available by default in most geographies while EU/UK admin opt‑in remains required. microsoft.com Microsoft is launching Agent 365 as a centralized “control plane for agents,” with General Availability slated for May 1 and a published per‑user price of $15/month as part of the governance stack that also anchors the new Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite at $99/user. microsoft.com Azure “brought up” an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack for validation, a milestone Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted about on X on March 13, 2026. computing.net NVIDIA’s NVL72 rack contains 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs and is quoted at up to 3.6 exaflops (NVFP4 inference), with vendor specs listing ~20.7 TB HBM4, ~54 TB LPDDR5x, and a 260 TB/s NVLink fabric—figures aimed at supporting very large, memory‑hungry agent inference and MoE workloads. videocardz.com Microsoft’s platform play pairs Copilot Studio model choice with Agent 365 observability features (agent registry, quarantine, identity binding and audit trails) to enable enterprise rollouts that can map models, cost and risk per agent at scale. microsoft.com
