ANTHROPIC, the U.S. artificial intelligence startup, introduced a series of connectors and plugins for its knowledge worker tool Claude Cowork on Tuesday. The updates are designed to help enterprises “turbo charge” the capabilities of individual employees.

Starting Tuesday, organizations can connect Claude Cowork to existing tools such as Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, and FactSet. They can also deploy customizable plugins across domains including financial analysis, engineering, and human resources that encode institutional knowledge and workflows, according to Anthropic.

“We’re trying to make it much more accessible and much more ready for anyone to be able to use,” said Kate Jensen, head of Americas at Anthropic.

Investors were on edge ahead of the expected announcement, but software stocks rallied as the company named its partners and shared details behind the new offering. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF closed down nearly 5% on Monday, but ended Tuesday less than 1% lower.

During a livestream on Tuesday, Peter McCrory, Anthropic’s head of economics, said the company has yet to see evidence of widespread displacement in the labor market.

Even so, McCrory said the scope of the technology’s impact on the economy is broadening, and some roles — such as data entry workers — are likely at greater risk than others.

“The labor market implications are likely to be very uneven, at least for the foreseeable future, much in the same way that past waves of information technology innovation had uneven impacts,” McCrory said.

Anthropic has seen early success selling to the enterprise market, which accounts for roughly 80% of its business. But the company is racing to fend off growing competition from rivals like OpenAI and Google, which have also set their sights on lucrative enterprise contracts.

With its updates to Claude Cowork, Anthropic is aiming to build on the momentum of existing products like Claude Code, its AI coding tool that has seen widespread adoption over the past year.

“Engineers think about Claude Code as a tool that they just couldn’t live without anymore,” Jensen said. “We expect that every knowledge worker will feel that way about Cowork.”

(SD-Agencies)