Anthropic folds Claude chat and Cowork into single interface, launches Docs and Slides

Anthropic is consolidating multiple Claude product surfaces into a single UI and adding native Docs and Slides features in beta, initially for paid tiers; the change shifts the product toward a unified agentic work surface.

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- Unified interface: regular chat and Cowork combined so Claude routes tasks automatically rather than requiring users to pick a tool.
- New products: Claude Docs and Claude Slides launched in beta to create, edit, share and export documents and presentations from chats.
- Design integration: Claude Design visuals are available inside any conversation rather than a separate product.
- Initial rollout: Pro and Max subscribers receive the update first on web, desktop and mobile over the coming weeks.
- Team and Free tiers: Anthropic plans to extend access later but did not give firm dates.
- Enterprise controls: administrators can enable capabilities for organizations.
- User experience: removes need to decide between chat vs. longer-running Cowork workspace.
- Collaboration: Docs support real-time collaboration and commenting; Slides can be exported as PDF or PowerPoint.
- Strategic: narrows feature gap with large productivity players by keeping document and slide workflows inside Claude.

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