- Now you can run Claude Cowork in the cloud, from the web or mobile
- Knowledge work now accounts for around half of all Cowork sessions
- Traditional local Cowork sessions are still supported
Days after reports emerged that Anthropic could add Claude Cowork to its mobile app, the company has gone further: Users can now start, monitor and complete their agent workflows from the mobile app and a dedicated web portal.
The update is now rolling out in beta to Claude Max subscribers, but the company plans to bring the functionality to more plans as the rollout continues.
As part of the update, Cowork sessions will also run in the cloud by default, another beta introduction that means workflows can continue even once a PC goes offline or shuts down.
Claude Cowork can now be used virtually anywhere
Because the AI agent can run autonomously on things like files and documents, emails and calendars, and other connected applications, many users mostly left Cowork to run independently. However, because it was running locally, it required users to keep their desktop session active even when they walked away.
Scheduled work now no longer requires a device to remain online, although users can still choose to run Cowork locally when access to local files is required, for example.
As for why Claude Cowork is used, Anthropic has revealed that the autonomous agent is primarily used among knowledge workers even though it was initially targeted at coders. “Collect scattered updates into a single report, create onboarding checklists, and reconcile spreadsheets” accounts for the largest share, about 33%, of all use cases in Anthropic’s analysis of 1.2 million sessions.
Content creation and copywriting followed (16%), while software development (9%) and DevOps and infrastructure (7%) actually only account for much smaller proportions.
With knowledge work now accounting for nearly half of all Claude Cowork sessions, the company’s research shows agent AI emerging as an everyday work colleague. Although the company did not indicate how, or if, this change in behavior could affect its pipeline, a move away from coding as a primary use case could evolve Cowork in different ways than we could have imagined.
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