Anthropic merges Claude Cowork, chat and Design into one Claude app with docs, slides and scheduled background tasks.
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Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork (its agentic workspace for larger tasks) and regular Claude chat are now a single Claude experience. Instead of choosing between chat, Cowork or Design, users hand a task to Claude in any conversation, and Claude decides what the task needs, using the context, skills and connectors already set up. Existing Cowork chats, projects, artifacts, connectors and skills carry over.
The release adds Claude Docs and Claude Slides (both beta on paid plans) and brings Claude Design into conversations. Documents and presentations can be edited directly, shared via a single link, presented from Claude, or downloaded as PowerPoint or PDF. Tasks can continue after the laptop is closed, be monitored from a phone, and be scheduled to recur. By default Claude asks before taking actions; users can switch to a mode where it only checks in when something needs attention.
Rollout started on Pro, Max and Ultra plans over several weeks in the Claude app on web, desktop and mobile. According to the page, it became generally available for Enterprise on October 23 and for Team on November 12; Free plans are to follow. Enterprise admins choose when to enable Docs, Slides and Design. A YouTube creator on a Max plan reported not yet having access shortly after the announcement, consistent with the gradual rollout.
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Anthropic announced Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one experience, rolling out gradually to Pro and Max plans. The creator doesn't have it yet on his Max plan and complains about announcing before availability.
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