Earlier this week, Anthropic made waves by announcing a launch into healthcare, just days after OpenAI revealed ChatGPT Health.
Now, the company just announced Cowork, a new research preview that turns Claude from a conversational assistant into something closer to an autonomous digital coworker — one that can directly read, create, edit and organize files on your computer, plan multi-step tasks and carry them out with minimal supervision.
While this new feature is currently now only available to Claude Max subscribers on macOS, this move is huge. Cowork dramatically expands what Claude can do beyond chat. And while it’s positioned as a “simpler” way to work with Claude, its implications are anything but small, especially for small businesses and startups.
