Anthropic launches job-specific tools
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Anthropic launched tools Tuesday that companies, teams and even individual employees can customize across business units ranging from human resources to design.
Why it matters: Anthropic is making Claude easier to use for enterprises as it works to become the go-to AI platform for businesses.
State of play: Anthropic's latest plugins let Claude act as a conductor working in other apps or systems in continually more autonomous ways.
- When a user prompts Claude to do something, instead of it feeding back instructions, it can go do it: connecting with other programs, or completing tasks in Excel or PowerPoint without the user being involved.
- The plugins are meant to be customized and trained by so-called "power users" at different companies. Those users will help design plugins that can then be easily used by more novice team members.
The other side: OpenAI launched its own enterprise platform to manage corporate AI agents earlier this month.
Zoom in: Some of the companies that investors worry AI will kill are instead partnering with Anthropic on these plugins, and their stocks are up as a result.
- Docusign and Intuit stocks rallied off the back of their partnership announcements with Anthropic.
Threat level: It can also connect with Google's apps, including Google Drive and Gmail.
- It's interesting that Google allowed that given its own AI ambitions with its model, Gemini.
What we're watching: To what extent these tools actually drive enterprise revenue.
- And how that revenue could impact Anthropic's valuation.
