- You can now run Claude Cowork in the cloud, from the web or mobile
- Knowledge work now makes up about half of all Cowork sessions
- Traditional local Cowork sessions are still supported
Days after reports surfaced that Anthropic might integrate Claude Cowork into 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 upgrade is currently rolling out in beta to Claude Max subscribers, but the company plans to expand the feature to more plans as the rollout continues.
As part of the upgrade, 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
Since the AI agent can run autonomously on things like files and documents, emails, calendars, and other connected apps, many users have mostly let Cowork run independently. However, because it ran locally, it required users to keep their desktop session active even when they moved away.
Now, scheduled work 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 what Claude Cowork is used for, Anthropic revealed that the autonomous agent is primarily used among knowledge workers, although it was initially intended for coders. “Collecting scattered updates into a single report, creating onboarding checklists, and reconciling spreadsheets” makes up the largest portion, or about 33%, of all use cases in Anthropic’s analysis of 1.2 million sessions.
This is followed by content creation and writing (16%), with software development (9%) and DevOps and infrastructure (7%) actually making up much smaller proportions.
With knowledge work now accounting for nearly half of all Claude Cowork sessions, the company’s research shows that agentic AI is emerging as an everyday work colleague. While the company hasn’t indicated how or if this behavioral shift might impact its pipeline, moving away from coding as a primary use case could cause Cowork to evolve in different ways than we might have imagined.
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