Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps.
Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Home windows right this moment in public beta, which — as Anthropic writes in a weblog put up — “brings Claude’s capabilities directly to your preferred work environment.” These capabilities, to be clear, don’t embody Anthropic’s not too long ago introduced Laptop Use characteristic, which permits the corporate’s latest flagship mannequin, an upgraded model of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, to carry out duties in your PC.
The desktop apps can be found each without spending a dime Claude customers and customers subscribed to Anthropic’s premium plans.
Anthropic additionally launched a dictation instrument for Claude. Nevertheless, this characteristic is at the moment not accessible within the new desktop apps. On iOS, Android, and iPadOS, customers can report and add a message as much as 10 minutes in size to have Claude transcribe and reply to it. To be clear, this isn’t a dialog mode. Dictation is extra akin to sending a voice message.
The brand new options arrive as Anthropic is reportedly elevating billions of {dollars} at an over-$40-billion valuation. It has a vested curiosity, it goes with out saying, in making Claude aggressive with rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
