Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, speaks at the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026.
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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, which shocked Wall Street last month, is now being unveiled more broadly.
The artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday announced a series of connectors and plug-ins for its knowledge worker tools that companies can use to “turbocharge” the capabilities of individual employees.
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork as a research arm last month, spooking software stocks as investors grapple with the disruptive potential of AI. The company said Claude Cowork’s new updates mark its transition to a true enterprise-grade product.
Starting Tuesday, organizations will be able to connect Claude Cowork to their existing tools, including: Google DriveGmail, docusign and FactSet. Anthropic says customizable plugins can also be deployed across domains such as financial analysis, engineering, and human resources that encode organizational knowledge and workflows.
“We’re trying to make this more accessible and available to everyone,” Kate Jensen, head of Anthropic’s Americas division, said in an interview with CNBC.
Investors were nervous ahead of Anthropic’s anticipated announcement, but software stocks rose after the company named a partner and revealed details behind its new product.
The iShares Expanded High-Tech Software Sector ETF closed nearly 5% lower on Monday, but rose nearly 2% in intraday trading Tuesday.
Peter McCrory, head of economics at Anthropic, said in a livestream on Tuesday that he had not yet seen any signs of widespread displacement in the labor market.
Still, McCrory said the scope of technology’s impact on the economy is expanding, and some roles, such as data entry workers, are likely to be at greater risk than others.
“Just as past waves of information technology innovation have had uneven impacts, the impact on the labor market is likely to be very uneven, at least for the foreseeable future,” McCrory said.
Anthropic has had early success selling into the enterprise market, which accounts for about 80% of its business. But the five-year-old company is racing to fend off increasing competition from rivals like OpenAI and Google, which are also eyeing lucrative corporate deals.
With updates to Claude Cowork, Anthropic is looking to build on the momentum of existing products such as Claude Code, an AI coding tool that has seen a wave of adoption across enterprises over the last year.
“Engineers think of Claude Code as a tool they can’t live without,” says Jensen. “We expect all knowledge workers to feel that way about Cowork.”
The startup was founded in 2021 by a group of researchers and executives from OpenAI, which sparked the AI boom by launching the ChatGPT chatbot in 2022. Anthropic launched its flagship chatbot, Claude, the following year, and its valuation has since ballooned to $380 billion.
Jensen said Claude Cowork goes beyond the basic chatbot interface that users are accustomed to, and that the real-time context from the tool’s internal connectors should help employees feel a real productivity boost.
“We’re really introducing the necessary context and administrator controls that businesses have always cared about to make the end-user experience completely different,” she said.
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