Your work laptop just got some competition. Anthropic is taking its Claude Cowork tool and putting it on your phone and in your browser. 

Starting Tuesday, Max subscribers can start a task at their desk, check on it from their phone, and grab the finished product later. Your laptop does not even need to be open.

This is huge for a tool that only came out in January. Back then, Cowork was strictly a desktop app. 

Coding Tool

Claude Cowork started life as a cousin of Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding agent. But it was built for people who do not write code. 

Think reports, spreadsheets, and presentations instead of software. With this expansion, Anthropic wants Cowork to feel less like a stripped-down coding tool. 

It wants it to feel like a real coworker. One that works quietly in the background. One that follows you from your laptop to your phone. 

And one that knows when to stop and ask you a question only a human can answer.

OpenAI had done something similar with Codex. That tool also began as a coding product. Now, non-developers use it too for research, data analysis, reports, and more.

Both companies seem to agree on one thing. The future is not about who builds the smartest chatbot. It is about who controls the space where daily work actually gets done.

Anthropic is not stopping with Cowork, either. The company recently rolled out Claude Tag. That tool lives inside Slack. 

It acts like an always-on AI teammate, learning how your company works over time.

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Offline Work

Here is the real advantage of going multi-platform. Cowork can now keep working even if your device is turned off. The task simply continues in the background.

Anthropic shared an example to show what this looks like in real life. Imagine setting up a client meeting prep for six in the morning. 

Claude digs through emails, transcripts, and recent news overnight. It builds a briefing document. It even drafts a follow-up email, but leaves it unsent for you to check. 

Then you review everything with your morning coffee. The desktop app still has its place, though. It remains the best option for deep, focused work. 

That is because it can access local files and your browser directly, something mobile cannot fully replicate yet.

But by expanding to web and mobile, Anthropic opens the door to people who never installed the desktop app in the first place. 

Chat and Cowork will also work together on web and desktop. Projects and files will live in one shared space across platforms.

Usage

Anthropic also shared fresh data on how people use Cowork. And the results tell an interesting story.

The company looked at 1.2 million anonymized Cowork sessions. These came from more than 600,000 organizations from the last two weeks of May.

The biggest use case was not coding but something Anthropic calls business process operating. This made up 33.4 percent of all sessions. 

It covers tasks like pulling together scattered updates into one report, building onboarding checklists, and fixing messy spreadsheets. 

These are the jobs that keep finance, HR, and admin teams running smoothly. Content creation came in second at 16.4 percent. 

This includes writing drafts, building slide decks, and putting together social posts and proposals. Marketing and management teams lean on this the most.

Software development, meanwhile, only made up 8.7 percent of total usage. That is a small slice compared to everyday business tasks.

Cowork’s Value

Anthropic pointed out something worth noting. Coding still gets most of the spotlight when people talk about AI. But the numbers tell a different story.

Everyday business work, the kind that rarely makes headlines, is where AI is used the most. These are the tasks nobody loves doing.

Anthropic says it wants this data to help other companies figure out how to use AI tools in their own daily work.