Claude Cowork is now accessible to extra Claude customers, alongside new updates aimed toward workforce workflows.
Anthropic made Claude Cowork accessible to customers on Crew and Enterprise plans, and it brings the platform nearer to being a collaborative AI infrastructure. For enterprise groups, the change issues much less as a characteristic replace than as a shift in how Claude is supposed for use. Cowork reframes Claude as a shared, persistent workspace the place context, information, and duties stay past a single person session. This aligns extra carefully with how groups truly function than one-off chat interactions.
Cowork, launched earlier in January, lets individuals full non-technical duties in the identical asynchronous method they use Claude Code. It was initially restricted to Claude Max subscribers.
Enterprise and Groups customers who can entry Claude Cowork can start constructing workflows for his or her non-technical, or no-code, tasks and even create fully new information inside the folders they’ve entry to. Nonetheless, Anthropic didn’t say whether or not Cowork tasks or information are transferable between customers, even inside the identical Enterprise or Crew plan.
That uncertainty might matter for enterprises evaluating Cowork as a system of report reasonably than a private productiveness software. Questions round possession, entry, and continuity — resembling what occurs to shared AI-generated work when an worker leaves — are more and more central as organizations transfer AI into manufacturing workflows. Now that extra individuals throughout Claude’s paid tiers can use Cowork, Anthropic is extending AI-assisted workflows past builders and into broader groups.
As extra groups experiment with AI-assisted workflows, instruments initially designed for coding are more and more being repurposed for coordination, documentation, and process execution. Anthropic mentioned Claude Cowork emerged after engineers seen customers stretching Claude Code past growth and into broader, asynchronous workflows.
Regardless that Claude Cowork remains to be in analysis preview, Anthropic additionally added new options to the software.
The primary lets individuals “@-mention tasks to deliver context into Cowork periods, and Claude in Chrome now exhibits stay screenshots as it really works.” It permits individuals to keep away from switching home windows when including extra info to the Cowork process.
The second new characteristic permits onboarding of recent distributors at scale.
Each options ought to make it simpler for groups to share and develop new duties. Collectively, the updates level to Cowork’s function as shared infrastructure for ongoing work, reasonably than a transient chat interface.
