Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps.
Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Home windows at present in public beta, which — as Anthropic writes in a weblog publish — “brings Claude’s capabilities directly to your preferred work environment.” These capabilities, to be clear, don’t embrace Anthropic’s lately 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 totally free Claude customers and customers subscribed to Anthropic’s premium plans.
Anthropic additionally launched a dictation device for Claude. Nevertheless, this characteristic is at present not out there 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.
