Anthropic's Claude Cowork heads to the cloud as data shows 90% of sessions aren't for coding
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- Claude Cowork is becoming a cloud-based AI helper.
- Desktop still offers the fullest Cowork experience.
- Anthropic said 90% of Cowork use is not coding.
Anthropic announced today it's bringing the agentic helper for Claude users, Claude Cowork, to the web and mobile devices. After analyzing 1.2 million Cowork sessions, Anthropic is also sharing some unexpected usage details.
Let's start with the Cowork upgrade.
The work around the work
Anthropic also introduced a new phrase to describe Cowork: the work around the work.
The premise is that professionals have a ton of domain expertise, but a lot of their time is consumed doing administrivia tasks, like digging through emails, consolidating spreadsheets, organizing files, and whatnot. Those tasks aren't technically "the work." They're the work you do to get the work done, hence, "the work around the work."
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