By Janet H. Cho and Nate Wolf
Artificial-intelligence start-up Anthropic unveiled new capabilities that link its Claude large language model to popular enterprise software like Google Drive and WordPress.
The company unveiled new features to make Claude Cowork, its desktop AI agent, customizable for enterprise clients during a livestream Tuesday.
Customers can create private plug-ins from scratch or customize plug-ins based on Claude's starter templates, which include options for human resources, equity research, engineering, wealth management, and other functions. They can then pass files and data back and forth between Cowork and Microsoft tools like PowerPoint and Excel.
Anthropic also introduced "connectors" that integrate Cowork into several enterprise software products. New integrations include WordPress, FactSet, Alphabet's Gmail and Google Drive suites, and LegalZoom. FactSet got an immediate boost during the livestream.
Shares of Spotify Technology and Salesforce also swiftly jumped and then retreated after Kate Jensen, head of Americas at Anthropic, pointed to the duo as companies using Claude to streamline processes.
The event came a day after fears about disruption by artificial intelligence sank stocks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 800 points and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite shedding 1.1%. The major indices rose in early trading Tuesday. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector exchange-traded fund rose 1.4% on Tuesday.
Anthropic calls Claude a "thinking partner" with which users can tackle "any big, bold, bewildering challenge." Users can deploy Claude to chat, generate code, visualize data, search the web, or create content, among other tasks. It costs $17 a month for the Pro version with an annual subscription, $20 a month if billed monthly, or $100 a month for the Max version.
"Out of the box, Claude is a capable generalist," the company said. "But when you plug in your tools, context, and knowledge, it becomes something more: a specialist who knows your work the way you do."
The online event is aimed at senior leaders shaping AI strategy at their organizations, including CIOs, CROs, general counsels, and heads of analytics, Anthropic said.
Mizuho analysts said there is "trepidation" ahead of Anthropic's event and that is perhaps why stocks pulled back Monday. "No one wants to get cute ahead of another AI product reveal. Every new Anthropic headline has been treated as 'incremental competition' for existing software, whether that's fair or not. So instead of trying to game the outcome, investors are choosing to step aside."
"Easier to sell first and ask questions later than get caught in another headline--driven downdraft," Mizuho wrote.
Most recently, Anthropic's reveal of Claude Code Security -- a tool that scans codebases for security vulnerabilities -- triggered a mass selloff of cybersecurity that extended from Friday to Monday. The fear is that legacy cybersecurity vendors may get disrupted.
"It remains challenging to disprove a negative (prove they won't be disrupted), supporting the 'sell first, ask questions later' environment we've seen recently," J.P. Morgan analyst Brian Essex wrote in a research note Monday.
Write to Janet H. Cho at janet.cho@dowjones.com and Nate Wolf at nate.wolf@barrons.com
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