Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that wo...

What’s Happening

Let’s talk about Anthropic dropped Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.

The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microso Featured Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required Michael Nuñez Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Anthropic dropped Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. “Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code,” the company just dropped via its official Claude account on X. (it feels like chaos)

The feature arrives as a research preview available exclusively to Claude Max rs — Anthropics power-user tier priced between $100 and $200 per month — through the macOS desktop app.

The Details

For the past year, the industry narrative has focused on large language models that can write poetry or debug code. With Cowork , Anthropic is betting that the real enterprise value lies in an AI that can open a folder, read a messy pile of receipts, and generate a structured expense report without human hand-holding.

How developers using a coding tool for vacation research inspired Anthropics latest product The genesis of Cowork lies in Anthropics recent success with the developer community. In late 2024, the company dropped Claude Code , a terminal-based tool that allowed software engineers to automate rote programming tasks.

Why This Matters

The tool was a hit, but Anthropic noticed a peculiar trend: users were forcing the coding tool to perform non-coding labor.

This adds to the ongoing AI race that’s captivating the tech world.

The Bottom Line

This story is still developing, and we’ll keep you updated as more info drops.

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