Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s AI assistant to take care of simple tasks on your computer, is now available to anyone with a $20-a-month Pro subscription. Anthropic launched Cowork as an exclusive feature to its Max customers, who pay a minimum of $100 per month for greater use of the cloud’s expensive logic models and early access to experimental features. Claude Cowork is now available at a cheaper price, although Anthropic notes that “Pro users may exceed their usage limit earlier” than Max users.
Like other AI agents, the novelty of Cloud Cowork is its ability to work on its own. If you have macOS Cloud Apps and a Pro subscription, you can prompt Cloud Cowork to work on tasks on your local computer, like creating documents based on files you’ve saved or organizing your folders. The feature is an evolution of Anthropic’s AI coding agent Cloud Code, and can similarly use connectors and the Cloud Chrome plugin to work with other apps and the web.
As part of this expanded rollout, Anthropic has included some improvements inspired by early user feedback. You’ll now be able to rename sessions with Cloud Cowork (“tasks” in cloud app parlance) and the company says the AI assistant will offer better file format previews, more reliable use of connectors to other apps, and confirmation messages before deleting files.
Coding agents top the list of AI applications that have gained real traction in the last year, so it makes sense to apply what Anthropic has learned with Cloud Code to a more general collection of computer tasks. Cloud Cowork is still limited to macOS and paid customers of Anthropic, but considering the AI agent remains popular, it wouldn’t be surprising if the company brought it to other platforms.
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