BREAKING
Microsoft Eyes Open Models for Cowork
Goal: Interchangeable Models
The Models Behind Cowork
Current
Live
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Claude Opus 4.8 for hard tasks
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 everyday
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GPT-5.5 for Frontier users
Candidates
Eval
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GLM, MiniMax, Kimi
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DeepSeek hosted version
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Cowork 1 in-house model
0
$
per seat
0
$
heavy Opus task
0
K
Kimi context
Chinese Models on SWE-bench
GLM/MiniMax/Kimi
80
GPT-5.2 level
85
Claude Opus
85
Flexibility vs Trust
AI NEWS BLITZ
Microsoft is reportedly evaluating multiple open models for Copilot Cowork.