With new updates aimed at team workflows, Cloud Cowork is now available to more cloud users.
Anthropic made cloud cowork accessible to users on team and enterprise plans, and this brings the platform closer to a collaborative AI infrastructure. For enterprise teams, this change matters less as a feature update than as a shift in how the cloud is used. Cowork has redefined the cloud as a shared, persistent workspace where context, files, and tasks persist beyond a single user session. This more closely matches how Teams actually works than one-off chat interactions.
Colleague, first released in januaryLets people complete non-technical tasks in the same asynchronous manner as they would using cloud code. Initially it was limited to Cloud Max customers.
Enterprise and team users who can access Cloud Cowork can begin creating workflows for their non-technical, or no-code projects and even create entirely new files within the folders they have access to. However, Anthropic does not state that Cowork projects or files are transferable between users, even within the same enterprise or team plan.
This uncertainty may matter for enterprises evaluating cowork as a system of record rather than a personal productivity tool. Questions related to ownership, access and continuity – such as what happens to shared AI-generated work when an employee leaves – are becoming increasingly central as organizations move AI into production workflows. Now that more people can use Cowork on the cloud’s paid tiers, Anthropic is expanding AI-assisted workflows beyond developers and into broader teams.
As more teams are experimenting with AI-assisted workflows, tools originally designed for coding are increasingly being repurposed for coordination, documentation, and task execution. Anthropic said cloud cowork emerged when engineers saw users extending cloud code beyond development and into broader, asynchronous workflows.
Although Cloud Cowork is still in research preview, Anthropic has also added new features to the tool.
The first lets people “@-mention projects to bring context into collaboration sessions, and the cloud in Chrome now shows live screenshots while working.” This allows people to avoid switching windows when adding more information to a coworker’s work.
The second new feature allows for the onboarding of new sellers on a large scale.
Both features will make it easier for teams to share and expand on new tasks. Together, the updates point to Cowork’s role as shared infrastructure for ongoing work rather than a temporary chat interface.
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