Anthropic Launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop Agent that Works in Your Files — No Coding Required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with other major players in the industry. According to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.