Microsoft Made GPT and Claude Work Together—And the Result Beats Every AI Research Tool Out There – Decrypt

Microsoft Made GPT and Claude Work Together—And the Result Beats Every AI Research Tool Out There

Microsoft’s Copilot Researcher now puts GPT and Claude to work in sequence—and the combination just outscored every AI system around.

By Jose Antonio Lanz, Edited by Guillermo Jimenez, Mar 30, 2026, 4 min read.

In brief

• Microsoft released two different modes that pair GPT and Claude to increase the quality of AI research.
  
• Critique makes the models collaborate, whereas Council makes them work in parallel while a third judge finds the discrepancies. This two-model workflow fixes hallucinations, weak citations, and other problems associated with mono-model AI research.

Deep research AI has been one of the hottest arms races in tech this year. Google announced its research agent for Gemini in December 2024, OpenAI released its own research agent in February 2025, xAI followed suit, Perplexity doubled down, and Anthropic’s Claude built a loyal following among professionals who need detailed, cited answers, introducing its agent in April of last year.

Every company has been trying to convince you that their single AI model is the smartest researcher in the room. Microsoft just said: Why pick one?

The company announced two new features on Monday for Copilot’s Researcher tool—called Critique and Council—that put OpenAI’s GPT and Anthropic’s Claude to work on the same research task in sequence. The result, according to Microsoft’s testing against an industry benchmark, scores higher than every system included in that test, including models from the top AI companies.

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