Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface
Anthropic unified Claude chat, Cowork, and Artifacts into one auto-routing interface, adding Docs and Slides creation with PDF and PowerPoint export.
Anthropic merged the Claude chat and Cowork front-ends so one window routes requests automatically, ending customer confusion over which tab to use. The update adds Claude Docs and Slides with PDF and PowerPoint export, collaborative sections, and comments, and makes Claude Design, launched in April, available anywhere in Claude. It rolls out to Pro and Max plans on web, desktop, and mobile over coming weeks, with Free and Team tiers later, following a recent Cowork memory upgrade.
- Unified front-end auto-routes requests, removing tab confusion between Chat, Cowork, and Artifacts
- Claude Design, introduced in April, now works anywhere within Claude
- Slides export to PDF or PowerPoint; Docs support sections, questions, and comments
- Update follows Cowork's memory layer upgrade for cross-chat user context
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Anthropic is merging its front-end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks.
The unified interface lets users access chat, Cowork, and Artifacts (Claude’s interactive workspace feature) within one window. Claude Design, which was introduced in April for website and prototype design, also works anywhere within Claude.
Before this rollout, the company said customers often struggled to choose the right tab for the right task. With the new design, Claude automatically routes requests without having to switch tabs or windows. The idea is to remove confusion about which feature to pick and use just one front-end to route work to different parts of the app.
Hopefully, OpenAI also takes a cue from this rollout and fixes ChatGPT’s interface across the platforms.
Anthropic is also adding dedicated features for making presentations and documents. Users can ask the AI assistant to create, edit and present slides, and can also download the generated presentation as a PDF or PowerPoint.
Similarly, with the Docs feature, users can work alongside Claude to create sections, ask questions, and comment on completed parts. Users can share generated documents or slides with a link and edit them on their phone.
Users can also ask Claude to start creating a document on desktop, and they can check the progress of the task using the mobile app.
These features are rolling out to Claude’s Pro and Max plans first, on the web, desktop and mobile over the coming weeks. The company plans to extend them to the free and team tiers later.
The update comes in the wake of an upgrade of Cowork’s memory layer, which helps Claude remember user context across chats.
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