- Claude Cowork is now available to all paying customers
- Enterprise plans benefit from new access controls, new governance and more
- Zoom also released an MCP connector to integrate its AI Companion
Anthropic has announced that its Claude Cowork platform is now generally available after recently being made available in search preview, with paid Pro, Team and Enterprise plans all having access to the agent assistant.
A huge improvement over previous AI tools, Cowork can not only perform tasks, but also control a user’s entire computer, open applications, edit files and much more, all through the standard desktop application.
And yet, despite its advanced capabilities, it positions itself as a tool for everyone, not just a niche development tool.
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Claude Cowork is generally available to paying customers
“Claude Code helped developers move from managing questions in Claude to whole tasks, and we’re seeing the same pattern across the organization with Claude Cowork,” Anthropic wrote.
Some of the new features introduced specifically for Anthropic’s enterprise customers include role-based access controls for teams, spending limits and usage controls for governance, analytics and visibility, as well as integrations and plugins.
The news coincides with the launch of Zoom’s MCP Connector, which makes AI Companion’s meeting summaries, action items, transcripts and intelligent recordings available to Cowork.
Claude Cowork and Claude Code on Desktop are generally available to all paying customers on Mac and Windows, and the company has committed to hosting an upcoming webinar on April 16 to help customers deploy the latest agentic tools with confidence.
The new general availability comes just weeks after the company added two new features to Claude Cowork and Claude Code: direct desktop use and remote task assignment from phones via Dispatch. As of late March, these were research previews only and intended for Pro and Max customers. We are already talking about general availability and future plans.
As for what’s next, we can only wait for Anthropic’s next blog post, but this agentic era is clearly aimed at eliminating friction and allowing AI to act persistently with less and less human interaction. And we’re already on our way there, with Claude Code’s automatic mode configured to less disturb users by determining when it does or doesn’t need to ask for user permission.
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