- Claude Cowork is now generally available to all paying customers
- Business plans get new access controls, governance and more
- Zoom has 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 research preview, with paid Pro, Team and Enterprise plans all gaining access to the agent assistant.
A significant advance over previous AI tools, Cowork can not only perform tasks, but it can also control a user’s entire computer, open apps, edit files and more, all through the standard desktop app.
And yet despite its advanced capabilities, it is being positioned as a tool for everyone, not just a niche developer tool.
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Claude Cowork is generally available to paying customers
“Claude Code helped developers move from asking Claude questions to entire tasks, and we’re seeing the same pattern across the entire 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 meeting summaries, action items, transcripts and smart recordings available for Cowork.
Claude Cowork and Claude Code on Desktop are generally available to all paying customers across Mac and Windows, and the company has committed to an upcoming webinar on April 16 to help customers deploy the latest agent tools with confidence.
News of 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 only study samples and 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 about removing friction and letting AI act persistently with less and less human interaction. And we’re already on our way there, with Claude Code’s auto mode set to bother users less by deciding when it does or doesn’t need to ask for user permission.
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