Anthropic's Boris Cherny Signals Claude Chat and Cowork Are Merging
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Claude Code showed that AI could do real work, not just answer questions. Developers hand Claude a feature, come back to shipped code. That's where much of the industry's serious engineering runs now. Cowork proved knowledge workers could do the same: hand Claude the brief, come back to finished files. Today, chat and Cowork start merging into one Claude. The direction: one Claude that carries context across everything you're working on, wherever you are. Simple enough for everyone to access Claude's full capabilities. I've been using this experience every day for the last few weeks, and it feels awesome. Simpler, faster, and more powerful. We're rolling this out slowly. We'll be fine-tuning the experience as we go to ensure it is fast and reliable. Can't wait to hear what you think.
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Boris Cherny of Anthropic says that Claude's chat and its Cowork product, which he describes as letting knowledge workers hand Claude a brief and come back to finished files, are starting to merge into one Claude. He describes the direction as one Claude that carries across everything a user is working on, simple enough for everyone to access its full capabilities.
Cherny says he has used the experience every day for the last few weeks and that it is simpler, faster and more powerful. He speaks as part of the rollout ('we're rolling this out slowly'), so this is not an independent user report. He says the experience will be fine-tuned as it rolls out, for speed and reliability.
- context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
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