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Copilot is the name for the harness / wrapper of MSFT products

The CLI can swap to whatever model (/models) based on your subscriptions.

The copilots on desktop or Office Apps are likely just GPT5 nano or other tiny models with cheap inference

Employees (at least on my team) get access to the Claude models as well when using Copilot CLI.

I disagree. As someone who just got a new Windows laptop with Copilot baked(forced) in I've tested Copilot a lot.

It. is. so. bad.

It feels like it's at least 1-2 years behind the current top models.

But there isn't a copilot model is there? Just a harnesse, and the vscode copilot extension is pretty good (haven't tried the tui)

Copilot is not the same agent as GitHub Copilot.

Your Copilot free offering isn't the Copilot they're using within the company for coding assistant. It's confusing I know.

Copilot cannot be behind any models because it's a harness, not a model. You can use any of the popular models through it, including Claude models. Though people have been saying that Claude CLI is a better experience.