- Claude Cowork is now generally available to all paying customers
- Enterprise plans get new access controls, governance, and more
- Zoom has also released an MCP connector to integrate its AI Companion
Anthropic has announced that its Claude Cowork platform is now generally available after recently being available in research preview, with paid Pro, Team and Enterprise plans having access to the agent assistant.
A big step up from previous AI tools, Cowork can not only execute tasks but can also control a user’s entire computer, open apps, edit files, and more, all through the standard desktop app.
And yet, despite its advanced capabilities, it is positioning itself as a tool for everyone, not just a specialized development tool.
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Claude Cowork is generally available to paying clients
“Claude Code helped developers move from handing in Claude questions to completed tasks, and we’re seeing the same pattern across the organization with Claude Cowork,” Anthropic wrote.
Some of the new features being introduced specifically for Anthropic’s enterprise customers include role-based access controls for teams, spending limits and usage controls for governance, analytics and visibility, and integrations and add-ons.
The news coincides with the launch of Zoom’s MCP connector, which makes AI Companion meeting summaries, action items, transcripts, and smart recordings available to Cowork.
Claude Cowork and Claude Code on Desktop are generally available to all paying customers on Mac and Windows, and the company has committed to an upcoming webinar on April 16 to help customers deploy the latest agent tools with confidence.
The general availability news comes just weeks after the company added two new features to Claude Cowork and Claude Code: direct computer use and remote task assignment from phones via Dispatch. At the end of March, these were only research previews and for Pro and Max clients. We are already talking about general availability and future plans.
As for what’s next, we can only wait for Anthropic’s next blog post, but this agent era is clearly about removing friction and allowing AI to act persistently with less and less human interaction. And we’re already on our way there, with Claude Code’s automatic mode set to cause fewer problems for users by determining when it does or does not need to ask the user for permission.
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