Anthropic’s Claude can now create editable documents

Anthropic is initially releasing these features to Pro and Max plan subscribers. Anthropic is merging its front end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks. The unified interface lets users access chat, Cowork, and Artifacts (Claude’s interactive workspace feature) within one window.

Claude Design, which was introduced in April for website and prototype design, also works anywhere within Claude. Before this rollout, the company said customers often struggled to choose the right tab for the right task. With the new design, Claude automatically routes requests without having to switch tabs or windows.

The idea is to remove confusion about which feature to pick and use just one front end to route work to different parts of the app. Hopefully, OpenAI also takes a cue from this rollout and fixes ChatGPT’s interface across the platforms. Image Credits: Anthropic Anthropic is also adding dedicated features for making presentations and documents.

Users can ask the AI assistant to create, edit, and present slides, and it can also download the generated presentation as a PDF or PowerPoint. Similarly, with the Docs feature, users can work alongside Claude to create sections, ask questions, and comment on completed parts. Users can share generated documents or slides with a link and edit them on their phone.

Anthropic is adding the ability to create docs, slideshow and access Cowork capabilities inside chat. It will roll out to Pro and Max subscribers first.

AI Anthropic's Claude can now create editable documents for you The company is merging chat and Cowork into one interface. By Mariella Moon Sept.

As part of the company's efforts to make it easier to access Claude's many capabilities — more on this later — you'll be able to ask it to make a document for you right within your conversation. You can ask Claude to create a document, such as a one-page sheet with pertinent information, and it will post the result inside your chat.

The document starts private, but you can choose to share it with colleagues if you're collaborating with them. While you can edit the document within Claude, you can also export and open it in Google Docs or Microsoft Word if you want.

The company is also adding the ability to create slides and presentations within conversations. You no longer have to go to Claude Design to create them.

If you ask Claude in your chat to create a presentation, it will drop the slides into your chat. You can also edit them directly or download them as a PowerPoint or a PDF.

Finally, Anthropic is also bringing Cowork and Artifacts into a single interface. Cowork is a mode within the Claude app that uses agentic AIs to accomplish multi-step tasks.

It can read your work documents, for instance, and then create documents, slides and spreadsheets for you. Meanwhile, Artifacts are pieces of content, such as documents, HTML websites and diagrams, that you save in a sidebar so that you can easily access them later.

Anthropic explained that it built Design as a place for visual work and Cowork as a separate place for bigger work. People apparently get confused about where to do a task, especially since what you start in one of them doesn't carry over to the other.

These updates, meant to create a "One Claude" offering, merge several capabilities into one interface. "Claude can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from any conversation, with the context, skills, and connectors you already have," the company explains.

These changes are rolling out to Pro and Max subscribers over the next few weeks on web, desktop and mobile. Users on Team and Free plans will also be getting them "soon.".

Users can also ask Claude to start creating a document on desktop, and they can check the progress of the task using the mobile app. These features are rolling out to Claude’s Pro and Max plans first, on the web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks.

The company plans to extend them to the free and team tiers later. The update comes in the wake of an upgrade of Cowork’s memory layer, which helps Claude remember user context across chats.

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