Anthropic releases ten agent templates for financial services that drastically accelerate complex processes, integrating with Microsoft 365 and providing access to existing data sources via connectors and MCP apps.
Users can now use GPT-5, Gemini, open-source models via OpenRouter, local models, or enterprise gateways as backends for Claude Cowork and Code in Claude Desktop.
Claude Cowork and Code now support any LLMs such as GPT-5, Gemini, local models, or enterprise gateways, without Anthropic making a formal announcement.
