Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, adds Docs and Slides

Anthropic said on September 16 that it is folding Claude Chat, the agentic Claude Cowork product, Artifacts and Claude Design into a single interface it calls one Claude, so the assistant routes a request to the right capability instead of making users pick a tab first. It also launched Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta, letting users generate, edit, present and share documents and decks from any conversation, with exports to Google Docs, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and PDF and real-time collaboration and comments on shared documents. The rollout starts with Pro and Max subscribers on web, desktop and mobile over the coming weeks, with Team and Free plans to follow, and comes after OpenAI's July launch of ChatGPT Work as both IPO-bound labs chase enterprise customers.