At some point the old MS playbook will be applied here and Anthropic will be extinguished. Like Google, Microsoft will probably reap the profits of AI by using existing customer contracts and distribution and immense capital to make up for the lack of innovation. Doesn’t seem fair that these mega corps can be far behind but catch up with capital and incumbent advantages.
"Working closely with Anthropic, we have integrated the technology behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot."
If you’re old enough, the Microsoft playbook is clear because they’ve done it so many times. At some point they’ll walk away from Anthropic, keep the branding, and having confused the marketplace and gained users, Anthropic will not be able to sell their own cowork to the businesses that all use Office 365 and get “cowork” for free in their contracts.