Anthropic adds Claude Docs and Slides in "one Claude" push

Anthropic's move adds document and presentation creation to Claude, joining Claude Design as part of the AI platform's productivity tools. The tools are launching in beta, and users can have Claude generate documents and presentations from any chat, ask Claude to make changes, or edit manually.

Alongside Docs and Slides, Anthropic is simplifying how Claude chats work by merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude "can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from any conversation, with the context, skills, and connectors you already have."

The "one Claude" update is rolling out first to Pro and Max users on web, desktop, and mobile "over the next few weeks," with access for Team and Free users coming later. Anthropic says there's "nothing to turn on" for the update, and users can also keep using Claude chat normally. The addition of Docs and Slides starts to close the gap between Anthropic's AI platform and Google's productivity tools, giving users fewer reasons to leave a Claude chat for other tools — though Google's AI services have the advantage of being natively tied into its suite of productivity tools, as seen earlier this year when Google expanded Gemini's role in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.