Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, launches Docs and Slides

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1. TechCrunch AIIvan Mehtalast month
   Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface

   # Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface Ivan Mehta 9:30 AM PDT · September 16, 2026 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. **Image Credits:**Anthropic Anthropic is also adding dedicated

2. The Verge AIStevie Bonifieldlast month
   Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

   Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides . They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude "can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from any conversation, with the context, sk … Read the full story at The Verge.

   
3. Techmemelast month
   Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

   Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first — 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.

   
4. Simon Willisonlast month
   Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

   Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. Bring a quick question, or hand over a report due at noon, and Claude takes it from there, even after you’ve closed your laptop. [...] This is rolling out to Pro and Max plans first, in the Claude app on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks to existing and new users on these plans. I guess this means Claude is becoming a general agent in its own right. On the one hand, this saves me some work, in that I was planning to finally figure out the boundaries between Cowork and regular Claude and write a follow-up to my piece on Understanding ChatGPT Work . I have a hunch that figuring out what this actually means in terms of features and surfaces is still going to take quite a bit of work. Via Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , anthropic , claude , ge

5. 机器之心机器之心last month
   刚刚，Anthropic关闭Claude Cowork独立入口，与Chat合并

   从今天起，Claude Cowork 和 Claude Chat 将合并为一个统一的 Claude。 无论是提出一个简单的问题，还是把一份中午截止的报告交给 Claude 处理，Claude 都可以接手完成任务，即使你已经关闭了电脑，任务也会继续进行。 这一功能将在未来几周内陆续向 Pro 和 Max 计划用户开放，之后还会覆盖更多套餐。 Claude 创建的内容也不再需要单独的存放空间，Claude Docs 和 Claude Slides 一并正式推出，同时，Claude Design 也已经可以直接在对话中使用。让 Claude 创建一份文档，你可以和 Claude 一起协作完成；让 Claude 制作一份演示文稿，Claude 会直接帮你起草幻灯片。 你可以直接在 Claude 中编辑内容，从 Claude 里直接进行演示，或者将文件下载为 PowerPoint 或 PDF 格式。这三项功能目前都处于 Beta 测试阶段，面向付费用户开放。对于企业用户，管理员可以决定何时开启这些功能。如果你单独使用 Claude Design，它仍会继续按照此前的方式运行。 Anthropic 表示，此前 Cowork 被设计为处理大型任务的独立工作空间，而 Claude Design 则主要面向视觉创作场景。用户在实际使用过程中会同时调用两者，但反馈称，最大的问题在于需要判断任务应该交给哪个工具完成，而且在一个工具中开始的工作也无法自动延续到另一个工具中。 为此，Anthropic 不再要求用户提前选择工具。如今，Claude 能够根据任务需求自动判断所需能力，让 Cowork 和 Design 的功能可以直接在任意对话中调用，同时继承用户已有的上下文、技能和连接器。 使用场景 一份每周报告需要在中午提交。出门前，你向 Claude 询问上周业务管线有哪些变化，然后补充一句： 按照我们一直使用的方式来写，标记出所有延期的事项，并把重点整理成 5 页幻灯片，用于管理层会议。 如果有任何不明确的地方，Claude 会主动询问。你可以在前往办公室的路上通过手机查看进度。 等你坐到办公桌前，报告已经整理成文档形式，其中包含同事留下的备注；演示文稿也已经准备好，可以直接打开、调整，并下载为 PowerPoint 文件。 由于两者都来自同一次对话生成，幻灯片内容已经与报告保持一致。

   
6. 量子位量子位last month
   Claude双入口合并，原生Office上线！硅谷AI办公大战也开始了

   Claude双入口合并，原生Office上线！硅谷AI办公大战也开始了 听雨 2026-09-17 17:07:25 来源： 量子位 文档和PPT都能做了 听雨 发自 凹非寺 量子位 | 公众号QbitAI 好家伙，现在AI办公大战已经卷到大洋彼岸了…… 就在刚刚， Anthropic 宣布 Cowork与Chat合并 ，并新发了两个产品—— Claude Docs 和 Claude Slides 。 简单来说，就是你现在可以直接在Claude里做文档、PPT和设计等办公任务了，也不需要考虑是用Chat还是Cowork模式。 目前，Chat与Cowork的统一入口正在分批上线，Pro和Max用户率先获得更新，Team和Free用户随后跟进。 新推出的Claude Docs、Claude Slides，以及进入对话界面的Claude Design，则暂时处于Beta阶段，仅向付费订阅开放；Enterprise版还需由企业管理员开启。 看来A社也想把聊天框直接变成办公入口，这波属于紧跟潮流，推出了属于自己的AI原生办公全家桶～ Chat和Cowork入口合并 此前，在Claude里，Chat和Cowork是两个独立入口。 Chat就是常见的AI问答，而Cowork主打深度协作。 Cowork其实是今年1月从 Claude Code 孵化出来的，定位是“Claude Code for the rest of your work”，也就是给非开发者用的Claude Code。 简单来说，就是把写代码的那套agent能力搬到普通办公场景。 这个功能，四个工程师花了10天就搞出来了，大部分代码还是Claude Code自己写的。 但Anthropic表示，他们发现很多用户经常不知道一项任务究竟应该放到哪个界面里。 而且，在一个产品里积累的上下文，到了另一个产品里未必能顺畅接上。 现在，Chat和Cowork又进一步合并，只剩下了一个入口。 合并之后，聊天、Cowork和Artifacts都出现在同一个窗口里。 用户只需要描述自己想完成什么，Claude会判断该直接回答，还是调用更复杂的能力继续干活。 比方说，你今天中午就要交周报。 出门前，你可以让Claude拉取上周的业务数据，找出进度落后的项目，按照团队惯用格式写成报告，再把重点压缩成5页管理层汇报PPT。 如果信息不够，C