Now your computer can complete tasks for you! Anthropic launches Claude Cowork and it’s impressive.

For the past couple of years, having Gen AI has been an incredible tool to aid research and writing.

But agentic browsers, such as ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet, have had limited use.

Anthropic has now launched Claude Cowork.

It’s designed to do much more: working on your computer, accessing information, apps/programs (e.g. Chrome, Outlook), and connecting to external services (e.g. Gmail).

It is essentially designed to help “drive” your desktop and carry out day-to-day business tasks on your behalf.

And all in a way that will meet organisational governance requirements.

It works on strict permissions, defining what information it can access and what actions it can take.

Anthropic’s approach to security is a big factor in why it now has over 32% enterprise-level market share.

Here’s an example task: Arranging a team regroup…

You can give it access to a folder containing past meeting information, your calendar, and email. Then, ask it to arrange a 30-minute regroup when your leadership team is free in the next 2 weeks, and define an agenda based on the past. It will review the notes, identify the attendees, browse their calendars, then send them an invite to meet which includes the agenda.

If it’s as good as early tests, it should go a long way to automating time-consuming desktop tasks none of us really want to be doing very often.

Would love to hear people’s thoughts. How much would you use it?