Microsoft Copilot Now Runs Claude and GPT Side by Side

Key Highlights – Microsoft announced Critique and Council today via Satya Nadella’s X account, with supporting documentation published simultaneously on the Microsoft Tech Community blog. Both features sit inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher, the tool aimed at enterprise professionals who need structured, sourced research outputs rather than conversational responses. As you may know, Copilot has historically operated on a single model at a time which was typically OpenAI’s GPT series, with Microsoft progressively integrating other vendors. Critique and Council represent a structural shift in how Copilot approaches research tasks, moving from a single model generating a response to multiple models […]