Anthropic Cowork Preview: Claude as Active Desktop Agent for Windows
Anthropic has entered the desktop agent arena in earnest. Cowork — the company’s native Windows application — brings Claude AI directly to your desktop as an active participant in file management, workflow automation, and system interaction, not just a chat interface. It’s a significant expansion of how Anthropic thinks about where Claude lives and what it does. For anyone watching the competition between self-hosted agents like OpenClaw and cloud-native offerings, Cowork is the clearest signal yet that the major AI labs are treating the desktop as a battleground. ...